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In order for civilized villagers in South- This Is Personal And Political I wish I had never spent the east Asia to tame a wild elephant and use hours of my youth locked up it for agricultural labor, they must first break I spent 13 years being educated in the public schools, I have in school or numbing the its spirit. This is accomplished by luring an watched loved ones waste decades working at them, and I have pain of that experience with adolescent animal away from others of its even spent several years as a wage slave in the school system more hours spent staring at species, and then chaining each of its myself. Based on this experience, I have decided that from an a television screen and a legs securely to the ground. The elephant anarchist point of view, and especially a green anarchist view- computer monitor. In some cannot move, cannot seek assistance point, there is almost nothing redeeming about the experience of ways it’s too late for me now, from family and friends,cannot independently take care of itself. schooling and the public school system. Any helpful ideas and my spirit has been broken – The poor creature is totallydependent, imprisoned and surrounded emotional support that youth get from a stray iconoclastic teacher, but just like a tamed elephant that by strange thin-haired apes who laugh or applaud at its pain and tutor, or counselor are completely outweighed by the nature of one day snaps and tramples its overseers, I misery. After this goes on for days, the elephant’s wild spirit is the educational system as a whole: a mass bureaucratic machine too can lash out and fight back against the broken, and it becomes a docile plough animal. of increasingly militaristic and inherently prison-like institutions, voices that bent my soul, and in doing so maybe I can help to whose admitted purpose is to mold humans from their natural save the next generation from having their spirits broken. School serves a similar purpose for civilizing and breaking the spirits wild state into the roles of good citizens and docile workers. For of young humans. At the tender age of 4 to 6 a child has just begun to anyone who claims to oppose government, authoritarianism, or Are you with me? articulate clearly in complicated symbolic language, as well as starting hierarchy (let alone civilization) to apologize for or support the to master complex physical and mechanical tasks. It is at this point, public school system is sheer hypocrisy and back-stepping. that vulnerable, fragile young humans are forcibly taken away from Though my personal economic survival is still partially their family home, human neighborhood and eco-system. With the dependent on wage slavery in the public schools, I would be threat of police violence and imprisonment or overjoyed to see every school at the least kidnapping of their child, waved at burned to the ground. I don’t wanna grow up parents to ensure compliance, countless When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night children are loaded on mass transport carriers If you doubt that the youth of today I don’t wanna grow up are turned into docile consumer and carted away. For the next 13 years they Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right Our I don’t wanna grow up. spend as many as eight hours a day with drones by the double whammy of Welcome to How do you move in a world of fog hundreds of other displaced youth in massive, school and the media, I suggest that That’s always changing things sterile, unfriendly institutional buildings. At these you spend some time around masses of young people. Listen to the way Makes me wish that I could be a dog “ institutions they are trained, under constant threat When I see the price that you pay Drop-Out and Fight-Back of various cruel and unusual psychological small children parrot the lines of I don’t wanna grown up punishments, to sit still, follow orders unques- movies and TV shows, and structure I don’t ever wanna be that way tioningly, and most importantly to fear what their entire identities and daily I don’t wanna grow up. routines around them. Observe the might happen if they ever stray outdoors, Seems like folks turn into things beyond the walls or yard of their little prison vacuous, worn out, dragged down That they’d never want and the watchful eyes of their overseers. lack of curiosity in many high school The only thing to live for students – that is, beyond interest in Is today… At the same time as young children are being product consumption, and media I’m gonna put a hole in my T.V. set schooled, another powerful force begins to icon worship. I don’t wanna grow up fully eclipse and dominate their perception of Open up the medicine chest

And I don’t wanna grow up the world. For many children in the first world, Green Anarchy #13 the flickering of the cathode ray behind TV Making Some I don’t wanna have to shout it out I don’t want my hair to fall out sets and computer monitors, and the recorded Space to Think In I don’t wanna be filled with doubt sound vibrations of radio, record, tape and CDs, thee deathdeath cultureculture begins itsits I don’t wanna be a good boy scout Most American public schools are may become essential to their perception at mmanipulating,anipulating, controlling, I don’t wanna have to learn to count the earliest developmental stage possible — severely understaffed and underfunded. I don’t wanna have the biggest amount when their hearing and vision become clear and wounding from birthbirth They can ill afford to hire increased I don’t wanna grow up. security or to rebuild following serious and senses distinct . In other cases, the child’s Well when I see my parents fight sabotage or attacks. If a campaign of such actions took place on a parents attempt to defer this experience until their kids reach the I don’t wanna grow up age of 3 or 5 or even 14 – but beyond that point it becomes virtually national level, where would this leave the youth of America? Well, They all go out and drinking all night impossible to save any human from the brainwashing experience of not locked up in schools for starters. And, in a world where And I don’t wanna grow up ” the commercial corporate media. consumption and production reign divine, idle hands can be the I’d rather stay here in my room Summer Special tools of the devil. Nothin’ out there but sad and gloom Sometimes these sounds and images offer children a rebellious voice, I don’t wanna live in a big tomb which seems to counter and subvert their schooling by extolling the Of course in such a scenario a lot of youth autonomy would be On Grand Street recouped by real prisons and private schools—and certainly by pursuit of maximum “cool” social status via product consumption. When I see the 5 o’clock news At other times the media simply parrots the same messages of television. (Unless of course, the equipment and buildings needed I don’t wanna grow up obedience, fear and conformity first learned in the educational to broadcast and receive this pacifying influence were also under Comb their hair and shine their shoes system. At all times TV, radio, stereos, computers and other constant attack, at both a local and international level, by diverse I don’t wanna grow up electronic media are defining and delimiting a young human’s small autonomous groups.) The same strategy could also be used Stay around in my old hometown existence, from the level of the physiological to that of the mythical. against the Internet, or any other electronic corporate media tools I don’t wanna put no money down of social control. I don’t wanna get me a big old loan Work them fingers to the bone Fight the Real Enemy If first world youth can’t go to school, watch television or surf the I don’t wanna float a broom web on a regular basis, and their parents can’t reliably entertain, Fall in love and get married then boom Certain contributors to this publication have suggested that those supervise and pacify them with these innovations, what the hell How the hell did it get here so soon who wish to physically fight civilization should prioritize attacks happens then? I don’t know—but it sounds like a scenario that’s a lot I don’t wanna grow up! on biotechnology and nanotechnology. These developments, which more encouraging of spontaneous revolt than our current situation. - Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan are not currently accepted as essential and inevitable by a majority of civilized people, make imminent the possibility of total ecological collapse at a basic molecular and genetic level – as Providing Alternatives well as the more frightening possibility of total human control When and if thousands of bored kids start roaming the streets in over the basic building blocks of life, a “post-ecology world” as hordes, it behooves anarchists to offer them access to radical ideas the proponents of nanotech admit they are working towards. All and tools for helping them deal with and understand their world. these reasons put biotech and nanotech high on the list of important To this end, anarchists should start right now building up publicly targets for calculated outbursts of rage against the machine. accessible libraries, free school seminars and personal repertoires Yet at the same time, in giving material manifestation to one’s of socio-political theory, historical knowledge, and more love of life and hatred of the gears of death, informed people should important by far, real hands-on skills of all kinds: from creating not forget that a few main institutions are primarily responsible art and music to building and fixing your own cars, bombs and for molding human beings into citizens, consumers and capitalists— bicycles; from permaculture to wild food gathering and hunting; namely: mass corporate media, the nuclear family, and the from marksmanship to conflict resolution. I mean, don’t we want to compulsory education system. Finding ways to attack and learn how to really live and share that with the next generation? transcend these evil influences is essential to moving beyond civilization. Of the three, only the mass media and the schools We Are All In Prison have clearly identifiable centralized offices of operation. And just as the people most essentially responsible for killing the earth have I don’t want to denigrate the uniquely awful experience of those names and addresses, so the buildings and equipment which are actually incarcerated in real penal institutions, but most individual most important for indoctrinating youth and maintaining control humans on the planet right now live day to day existences which of the minds of adults are quite obvious in any town or city – they are basically not so different from prisoners. Even for most of us are usually clearly listed in telephone books, and in many cases living in first world luxury, from cradle to grave, school to work, (unlike prisons, government centers, or resource extraction with the gaps filled in by TV, our minds and bodies are not free. corporation offices) they have little security to speak of. Summer ‘03 page 1 GREEN ANARCHY #13 From StillStill LifeWithLifeWith Summer Offensive The anti-war protests of the early spring were at times encouraging but remained, overall, limited and single-issue. “Anti-globalization” activism in recent years has WoodpeckerWoodpecker mainly focused on the excesses of the totalizing Machine of Technology and capital and not on its basic nature, its unrelenting logic. A writer published an open letter to Bernard “I love the magic of TNT. How eloquently it As the impact of 9/11/01 wanes, we will see whether we can connect the dots, in a leading liberal periodical. He requested an speaks! Its resounding rumble, its clap, its quack renew and deepen our understanding and resolve. The road to the September interview. Utmost secrecy was sworn. It was is scarcely less deep then the passionate moan World Trade Organization summit in Cancun passes through, for many, the late on the level. The writer was a man of proven of the Earth herself. A well-timed series of June WTO biotech conference in Sacramento. Along other paths and at a great courage and integrity. The writer wanted detonations is like a choir of quakes. For all of variety of sites as well will the depth of our desire for liberation be manifest. amnesty for dissidents such as Bernard. He said its fluent resonance, a bomb says only one word In all directions and at an accelerating rate, the degradation deepens and the that Bernard had suffered enough. He wrote that — ‘Surprise!’ — and then applauds itself. I love toll mounts. Some seem committed to the dull, slow death of reform approaches, living underground was no less punishing than the hot hands of explosion. I love a breeze content to hope to slightly re-arrange the modern artifacts of estrangement. These prison. “A person underground exists in a state perfumed with the devil smell of powder concerned souls contest really nothing, threatened as they are by the intoxicating of controlled schizophrenia,” he wrote. “Terror (so close in its effect to the angel smell of sex). element, the realm of permanent surprises. never slackens.” The journalist considered I love the way that architecture, under the Protest/activism as usual is worse than a bad joke. It is surrender to the forces of Bernard a victim of the Vietnam War. The fact impetus of dynamite, dissolves almost in slow death. It is the chorus of moderates who continue, for example, to lie about the that he had acted against the government’s motion, crumbling delicately, shedding bricks courageous militants of Genoa (anti-G8, July 2001), calling those who caused tens interests instead of in them was immaterial, the like feathers, corners melting, grim facades of millions in damage the accomplices of cops and fascists. Such is the slander by writer said. The sociopolitical realities that breaking into grins, supports shrugging and Chomsky, the World Social Forum and all others horrified by a real assault on the drove Bernard to risk his life bombing calling it a day, tons of totalitarian dreck system of destruction and domination. induction centers were essentially the same as washing away in the wake of a circular tsunami Some 200 years ago in Egypt, Napoleon, soon to be emperor and tyrant, sought those that led other young men to risk theirs of air. I love that precious portion of a second to inspire his army. “Soldiers,” he said, pointing to the pyramids, “Forty centuries trading shots in rice paddies. As a fugitive, on when window glass becomes elastic and bulges are watching you.” Napoleon sought to tip the scales of the world but only, of the run, living in disguise and fear, Bernard was out like bubble gum before popping. I love the course, in terms of glory for a nation-state. no less a casualty than those poor veterans public buildings made public at last, doors We may say that 100 centuries look down on us, because the crisis of today was who had left prime cuts from their physiques flung open to the citizens, to the creatures, born with domestication itself. Civilization has brought us to this point in time, to decay in Da Nang and Hue. to universe. Baby, come on it! And I love containing in its awful trajectory the victims of all history. We must do our part to Ha ha. the final snuff of smoke. honor this realization. That’s how Bernard’s infamous “Yes, and I love the trite In this homeless world the Machine plays its cards for all to see. Naked force response began. mythos of the outlaw. I love the everywhere, everything at stake for the resistance to that force. The challenge “Ha ha. self-conscious romanticism could not be issued with greater clarity. “Victim? The dif- of the outlaw. I love the ference between a black wardrobe of the criminal and an outlaw outlaw. I love the fey is that while criminals smile of the outlaw. I frequently are victims, love the tequila of the ConsequencesConsequencesConsequencesConsequences outlaws never are. outlaw and the beans of Indeed, the first step the outlaw... The outlaw toward becoming a boat sails against the flow, true outlaw is the refusal and I love it. All outlaws are (What(What AlwaysAlways Returns)Returns) to be victimized. photogenic, and I love that. ‘When freedom “All people who live subject to other people’s is outlawed, only outlaws will be free’ — that’s laws are victims. People who break laws out of a graffito seen in Anacortes, and I love that. By Susan Griffin greed, frustration, or vengeance are victims. There are outlaw maps that lead to outlaw People who overturn laws in order to replace treasures, and I love those maps especially. from “Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her” them with their own laws are victims. (I am Unwilling to wait for mankind to improve, the speaking here of revolutionaries.) We outlaws, outlaw lives as if that day were here, and I love To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our however, live beyond the law. We don’t merely that most of all. satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would live beyond the letter of the law — many “Victim? Your letter reminded the Woodpecker indeed be the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation. businessmen, most politicians, and all cops do that he is a Woodpecker blessed. Your Rachel Carson, Silent Spring that — we live beyond the spirit of the law. In a sympathies for my loneliness, tension, and We say you cannot divert the river from the riverbed. We say that sense, then, we live beyond society. Have we a disturbing fluctuations in identity have some everything is moving, and we are a part of this motion. That the soil is common goal, that goal is to turn the tables on basis in fact and are humbly appreciated. But moving. That the water is moving. We say that the earth draws water to the nature of society. When we succeed, we raise do not be misled. I am the happiest man in her from the clouds. We say the rainfall parts on each side of the mountain, the exhilaration content of the universe. We even America. In my bartender’s pockets I still like the parting of our hair, and that the shape of the mountain tells raise it a little bit when we fail. carry, out of habit, wooden matches. As long where the water has passed. We say this water washes the soil from the “Victim? I deplored the ugliness of the as there are matches, there will be fuses. hillsides, that the rivers carry sediment, that rain when it splashes Vietnam War. But what I deplored, others have As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. carries small particles, that the soil itself flows with water in streams deplored before me. When war turns whole As long as every wall is threatened, the world underground. We say that water is taken up into roots of plants, into populations into sleepwalkers, outlaws don’t join can happen. Outlaws are can openers in the stems, that it washes down hills into rivers, that these rivers flow to the forces with alarm clocks. 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GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 2 Summer ‘03 The Rising of the Barbarians: I A Non-Primitivist Revolt Against Civilization If we examine much of the current debate in anarchist circles surrounding civilization, technology, progress, green anarchy [...] versus red anarchy and so on, we are left with the impression “Today, the starry vault is a leaden veil that we vainly that criticism of civilization has only recently arisen within endeavor to pass through; today it is no longer unknown, it is anarchist and revolutionary thinking. But this impression is distrusted. false, and harmful for those of us with a revolutionary anti- “[...] I don’t give a damn for their progress; I want civilization perspective. to live and enjoy.” In fact, a revolutionary questioning of civilization, of technology and of progress can be found throughout the history Now, I want to be clear. I am not bringing all of this up of modern revolutionary thinking. Charles Fourier posed his in order to prove that the present-day anti-civilization current utopian socialist “Harmony” against the disharmony of has a legitimate anarchist heritage. If its critique of the “Civilization”. A number of the most radical of the Romantics reality we face is accurate, why should we care whether it (Blake, Byron and Shelly among others) were distinctly fits into some framework of anarchist orthodoxy? But distrustful of industrialism and its utilitarian reason. Bakunin and Coeurderoy, Malatesta and Filippi, all of the But we can bring things closer to home by looking at anarchists anarchists of the past who lived in struggle against domination, of the 19th century. Certainly Bakunin had no problem with as they understood it, were not trying to create any ideological industrial technology. Though he didn’t share Marx’s almost orthodoxy. They were participating in the process of creating mystical faith in the capacity of industrial development to a revolutionary anarchist theory and practice that would be an create the technical basis for global communism, he also did ongoing process. This process has included critiques of not see anything inherently dominating in the structure of civilization, critiques of progress and critiques of technology industrial systems. In fact, his concept of workers taking over (and often in the past these critiques were not connected, so the organization of society through their own economic and that, for example, Bakunin could call for “the annihilation of industrial development was to eventually become the basis of bourgeois civilization” and still embrace its technological anarcho-syndicalism (This development, however, is based on outgrowth, industrialism, and Marcus Graham could call for a misunderstanding, since Bakunin quite clearly stated that this the destruction of “the machine” in favor of an unmechanized But my anti-civilization perspective is not a primitivist organization was not something that could be developed on an civilization). We are living in different times. The words of perspective. While it may indeed be inspiring to look at the ideological basis outside of the direct struggle of the workers, Bakunin or Coeurderoy, of Malatesta or Renzo Novatore, or apparently anarchic and communistic aspects of some but rather that it was something that the workers would of any of the anarchist writers of the past, cannot be taken as a “primitive” cultures, I do not base my critique on a comparison develop for themselves in the course program or a doctrine to between these cultures and the current reality, but rather on the of their struggles. He therefore did not be followed. Rather they way in which all of the various institutions that comprise suggest any specific form for it). form an arsenal to be civilization act together to take my life from me and turn it Nonetheless, Bakunin’s appeals to the looted. And among the into a tool for social reproduction, and how they transform “unleashing of the wicked passions” weapons in that arsenal social life into a productive process serving only to maintain of the oppressed and exploited were are barbaric battering the rulers and their social order. Thus, it is essentially a seen by many of the more reasonable rams that can be used revolutionary perspective, and this is why I will always make revolutionaries of the time as a against the walls of use of anything in that arsenal which is the history of revolutionary barbaric call for the destruction of civilization, of the myth theory and practice that can enhance my struggle. “Primitive” civilization. And Bakunin himself did of progress, of the long- people have often lived in anarchic and communistic ways, call for “the annihilation of bourgeois since disproven myth but they do not have a history of revolutionary struggle from civilization” along with “the destruction that technology can save which we can loot weapons for our current struggle. Having of all States” and the “free and us from our woes. said this, however, I do recognize those anarcho-primitivists spontaneous organization from below We are living in a who continue to recognize the necessity of revolution and class upward, by means of free associations”. world in which technology struggle as my comrades and potential accomplices. But Bakunin’s French contemporary, has certainly gone out of Revolutionary struggle against the civilization of control and Ernest Coeurderoy, was less conditional control. As catastrophe profit that surrounds us will not be the reasonable attempt to in his rejection of civilization. He says follows catastrophe, take over the means of production. The dispossessed of this simply: “In civilization, I vegetate; I so-called “human” world seem to understand that this is no longer an option for am neither happy, nor free; why then landscapes become liberation (if it ever was). If most are not clear about precisely should I desire this homicidal order increasingly controlled who or what is the enemy, most do understand that they have to be conserved? There is no longer and mechanized, and nothing to say to those in power, because they no longer share anything to conserve of that which the human beings increasingly a common language. We who have been dispossessed by this earth suffers.” And he, along with conformed to their roles world now know that we can expect nothing from it. If we Dejacque and other anarchist as cogs in the social dream of another world, we cannot express that dream, revolutionaries of that time, appeals machine. Historically because this world does not provide the words for it. And most to the barbaric spirit of destruction the thread that has gone likely, many no longer dream; they just feel rage at the to bring an end to the civilization through all that is best in continuing degradation of their existence. So this revolution of domination. the anarchist movement will, indeed, be the release of the “wicked passions” of which Of course, the majority of anarchists has not been a faith in Bakunin spoke; the destructive passions that are the only door at that time, as in our own, did not civilization or technology to a free existence. It will be the coming of the barbarians question civilization, technology or progress. Kropotkin’s or progress, but rather the desire for every individual to be free predicted by Dejacque and Coeurderoy. But it is precisely when vision of communized “Factories, Fields and Workshops” or to create her or his life as he or she sees fit in free association people know that they no longer have anything to say to their Josiah Warren’s “True Civilization” inevitably have more with others. In other words, the desire for the individual and rulers, that they may learn how to talk with each other. It is appeal to those who are not prepared to face the unknown than collective reappropriation of life. This desire is still what precisely when people know that the possibilities of this world the anarchist critiques of industrialism and civilization that often motivates anarchist struggle. At this point it is clear to me that can offer them nothing that they may learn how to dream the offer no clear vision of what will be after the revolutionary the technological system is an integral part of the network of impossible. This network of institutions that dominate our life, destruction of the civilization that they hate. domination. It has been developed to serve the interests of the this civilization, has turned our world into a toxic prison. There The early 20th century, and particularly the great massacre rulers of this world. One of the primary purposes of large-scale is so much to be destroyed so that a free existence may be known as World War I, brought a major overturning of values. technological systems is the maintenance and expansion of created. The time of the barbarians is at hand. Faith in the bourgeois ideal of progress was thoroughly eroded social control, and this requires a technological system that is and the questioning of civilization itself was a significant largely self-maintaining, needing only minimal human “[...] May the barbarians break loose. May they aspect of a number of radical movements including dadaism, intervention. Thus, a juggernaut is created. The recognition sharpen their swords, may they brandish their battleaxes, may Russian anarcho-futurism and early surrealism. If most of the that progress had no inherent connection to human liberation they strike their enemies without pity. May hatred take the place better known anarchists (such as Malatesta, Emma Goldman, was already recognized by many revolutionaries by the end of of tolerance, may fury take the place of resignation, may Mahkno and so on) continued to see the possibility of a World War I. Certainly the history of the 20th century should outrage take the place of respect. May the barbarian hordes liberated industrial civilization, other lesser known anarchists have reinforced this understanding. We look out now on a go to the assault, autonomously, in the way that they saw a different vision. Thus, around 1919, Bruno physically, socially and psychically devastated world, the determine. And may no parliament, no credit institution, no Filippi wrote: result of all that has been called progress. The exploited and supermarket, no barracks, no factory ever grow again after dispossessed of this world can no longer seriously desire to their passage. In the face of the concrete that rises to strike the “I envy the savages. And I will cry to them in a loud get a piece of this putrefying pie, nor to take it over and sky and the pollution that fouls it, one can well say with voice: ‘Save yourselves, civilization is coming.’ “self-manage” it. The reappropriation of life must have a Dejacque that ‘It is not the darkness that the Barbarians will “Of course: our dear civilization of which we are so different meaning in the present world. In light of the bring to the world this time, it is the light.” — Crisso/Odoteo proud. We have abandoned the free and happy life of the forest social transformations of the past few decades, it seems to for this horrendous moral and material slavery. And we are me that any serious revolutionary anarchist movement This article originally appeared in the insurrectional maniacs, neurasthenics, suicides. would have to call industrialism and civilization itself into anarchist quarterly, Willful Disobedience, available “Why should I care that civilization has given question precisely because anything less may not provide for $1.00 from: Venomous Butterfly Publications, humanity wings to fly so that it can bomb cities, why should us with the necessary tools for taking back our lives as P.O. Box 31098, Los Angeles, CA 90031. I care if I know every star in the sky or every river on earth? our own. Summer ‘03 page 3 GREEN ANARCHY #13 Between Analysis and Vision Moving Beyond the Theory- Practice Dichotomy By A. Morefus

When we actually get down to the discussions of what is to be done, within the context of of the two segregated, linear, and illusory our small de-centralized groups, and the larger “I am cruising currently, right now. models of social change: 1) The development I am cruising because I have dedicated political and civilized realm, two limiting of a perfect critique along with the myself to all that is creative and de- factors must be taken into account: our physical deconstruction our own social programming structive in my life, right now. And I needs and our psychological state. Both are and conception of “flawless” interpersonal am equally in love with every aspect direct factors on the pace and scope from of my life, and all the ingredients that relationships in order to sometime down the which we can bring about change, and both have caused me turmoil and all the road “fight the revolution” or 2) “Fighting the deserve considerable and honest thought developing strategies or projects - our ingredients that have caused me revolution now” and then later dealing with the before, or at least in the discussion of, privileges or societal status as individuals or glory. I am the living whispered damaged survivors’ bodies, hearts, and minds developing projects or immediate objectives. groups, in relation to others. Yet, this should warning in the Roman general’s ear (the “we’ll figure it out later” approach). Both We all need to eat. We all need shelter. Within not be seen as a limiting aspect, but more of a “glory is fleeting”, and in that verb, are limited and dangerous models to work from. the capitalist system (and we can pretend that factor to be examined and carefully thought that active verb, “fleeting”, there I live; Limited, in the sense that one cannot happen we are not, or make it our primary focus to not about in our interactions with those around us. there I reside in this moment. I have without the other; they must be organically be dependent on it) we need a small amount of dedicated my life to the idiom, “I don’t Too often, all of these factors provide redundant intertwined along with many other priorities. money, both for personal and communal know”, and I am in love with the fran- restrictions on our actions and our dreams, Dangerous, because we will never get to the stage survival, but also to sustain most anarchist tic chaos of this limitless universe.” rather then being places from which our rage of physically dismantling the apparatus of projects. We should be cautious when criticizing - Timothy “Speed” Levitch, and momentum can develop. control and its institutions if we are exclusively this aspect of other anarchists’ lives. Pulling The Cruise inwardly focused; and equally dangerous, away from the system is an essential part of an Often, people’s response to the limitations because as damaged and pathologically anarchist trajectory, yet we are all somehow placed on the development of liberated “Pointed threats, socialized beings, we will reproduce unhealthy dependent on it, and to dwell too much on the communities is to carve out “autonomous” they bluff with scorn and dominating patterns, ultimately recreating Suicide remarks are torn, hypocrisy of this will get us nowhere. It is good spaces on the fringe of society. While there is an unqualitatively different society. from the fool’s gold mouth-piece, to be conscious of this, and try to lessen our an important element to this, as a relatively the hollow horn, Presentation style can be problematic when dependency through re-appropriation, self- “free” space to create healthier dynamics, to plays wasted words, exploring methods of social or personal sufficiency, and simple living, but until the move outside many of capitalism’s restrictions, proves to worn, transformation. Even though some seemingly capitalist system is thoroughly destroyed, we or as a stronger position to fight the system that he not busy being born, is static or factual information may be relatively are all somewhat reliant on it. This is a major from, it often becomes a “vacation-land” and busy dying” fixed, it is important to be clear that all analysis factor in their control mechanisms. Also, we escapist dreamscape. Escapism is not a - Bob Dylan, It’s Alright, Ma (I’m is obtained through various social filters and need to keep in mind, that we have all been preferable route to take for many reasons. It Only Bleeding) particular biases. For our personal or communal severely damaged by the domesticating neglects to account for the inevitable visions to remain non-ideological, they must processes of the dominant culture. We have co-optation and engulfing process by the be presented in an organic and subjective way. all been socialized with fucked-up roles, apparatus of the system, or the limitations It is always good to avoid painting ourselves keeping us in a perpetual state of misery and placed on “escapist” projects which may not subservience to, and for the benefit of, the be as apparent at their inception. These projects As anarchists desiring to be relevant outside into boxes, yet at the same time, not be too system, keeping us at odds with each other. may be helpful in providing isolated experiments of the mostly insular academic journals or ambivalent. For instance, there are times and Many are not psychologically or emotionally in dealing with specific problems or in practicing often sectarian theoretical discussion groups, it places to use “short-hand” or “lingo”, such certain skills, but are ultimately is important to openly explore the space between as the numerous lacking in their connection to analysis - the critical look at the entanglement prefixes anarchists the larger context of reality, of systems, institutions, and circumstances which tend use in order to which makes them inherently have brought us to this point (i.e. civilization), give a general priority artificial, possibly useful, but and our own personal and communal liberatory in terms of their contextually vacuous. Without visions - the world we are trying to create analysis or vision also being connected to projects (i.e. a return to wildness). This is an (i.e. green, red, pink, aimed at undermining, acknowledgement of the complex and multi- insurrectionary, etc.), dismantling, or destroying the faceted nature of any political or social but ultimately these system, they often cash in on movement, the space it inhabits, as well as the are restraining and certain privileges, rather then interpersonal relationships which develop within often make things using them to combat the system. and outside of it. Some level of reconciliation less apparent, rather They make revolution only half with the conflict between our own unrestrained than actually helping way, and often not at all. (…And aspirations and the world we live in must occur to illustrate compli- to regress, or be just a little before we can proceed in changing ourselves or cated perspectives. Therefore, it is good reactionary, for just second… I get the condition in which we dwell. This is not a pretty fuckin’ tired of those “who to be limber in how support of compromise as a method of action, or are no longer political” or “just a “let’s wait till later to fight” attitude, but we explain ourselves, living their lives” judging or even instead a mediation of the infinite directions and depending on those commenting on people or projects obstacles we must navigate around and through. we are in contact still continuing on in resistance. I am not speaking of what has been described as with, having a situ- It is understandable why some ational description. would lose hope in the prospects “anarcho-realism”, for that implies a denial of of the tremendous project of all the subjectivity and also usually entails “playing their This is not to say we should “dumb things down”. Aside from that capable of participating on certain levels. dismantling that is needed, but you games” or “selling-out” as a model of social cannot be outside and inside whenever it meets being an elitist attitude, it is usually not good How can we learn to accept limitations, change, thus putting it into direct conflict with and also work to decrease or compensate for your convenience or safety. Anarchy is not a anarchy. In order to be effective and in tune with at doing anything but alienating people. Nor past time, intellectual game, or a social club!) should we be chameleon-like, and try to be them? The healing process is always the process of change, however, it is important ongoing. It is a significant element of the to prioritize fluidity and flexibility over rigidity what flows or fits within a specific group or Everything we do is, in some way, a compromise clique. It is more honest and effective to relate revolutionary process, not a before or after of our unalienated desires or liberated goals, and and purity, and to understand complexity as project. Compassion is an important something which contains contradiction. to others’ lives and specific circumstances, all is muddied with the unhealthy and confining or give examples of how you integrate your component often lacking from radical scenes context we live in. Nothing is pure. Inactivity For a qualitatively different world, it is perspective into your everyday life. It is also and this absence stifles healing and growth. and taintlessness may be a sanitary response, helpful to synthesize the positive aspects of much more favorable and less dictatorial to We must figure out how to reconcile that we but what does it actually get us but self-righteous previous attempts at creating liberated raise questions rather than to give answers. Of are all at once victims and victimizers, satisfaction, nothing we can actually touch or societies or circumstances, to learn from past course, direct communication is preferred over colonized and colonizers, healers and feel. This does not even take into account the mistakes, and most importantly, to go beyond, mediated and impersonal modes of expression/ perpetuators. We can in no way be condoning fact that we are all, on varying levels, complicit or apart from, prior methods. Moving along connection like Internet posts. Finally, when of abusive or dominating behaviors, which in the systems of domination, and therefore, purity ideological lines has proven to be only good discussing or presenting ideas or concerns with must be dealt with firmly in accordance to a of ideas is virtually meaningless. For us to move at superficially unifying mass populations, and others whom you respect or wish to work with group’s processes, but they also need to be towards a revolutionary situation and a more is ultimately limited by its homogenizing on any level, it is always important to be able to acknowledged as symptoms of a larger healthy social condition, we need to come to process and disconnection from individual separate criticisms and internal discussions from colonizing and domesticating system. This grips with this fact. Meanwhile we should openly realities, as well as its lack of relevance to the denunciations and self-righteous posturing, pattern must be broken. Privilege is yet critique or understand the reformist or symptom- larger political context. We must step outside unless your only goal is to be right or pure. another factor to take into account when atic projects we, or others, are involved with; GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 4 Summer ‘03 in fact, this is a necessary process in any evolving between anarchism and the decentralized forms group or movement, but not along absolutist of feminism can be seen as a positive example or ideologically pure lines. There are many of the withering of a seemingly overwhelming important anarchist projects which are not gap between analysis and vision, by being insurrectionary in nature, that are not directly rooted in the everyday life. Within anarcha- attacking the apparatus of the system. These feminism, there is often a harmonizing of are important, however, in the creation of analysis and vision through daily activity and insurrectionary situations or revolutionary the meeting of the essential needs of individuals conditions. They should be seen for their value and their communities (i.e. community and also their limitations. There are numerous childcare, women’s healthcare, support groups, examples of what could be termed “reformism self-defense) and the overcoming of the from a revolutionary perspective” (outreach, obstacles of Patriarchy. D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) education, conferences, info-shops, publications, culture is a more general positive example of prisoner support, community spaces, mutual this dynamic, yet it often lacks the more overt aid networks, gardens, etc.). However, there are political nature. If the idea of “Revolution” is some important and honest questions to ask to retain any meaning, it needs to be situational ourselves or others when developing these in orientation, rooted in the personal desires types of projects: What are the goals? What do for liberation, and also be relating to the they offer an anarchist community or movement? context in which it resides. It is a living and How are they organized? Are they flexible? Are breathing phenomenon and it is never they meant to be permanent? Do the inherent complete. In general, it is good to avoid compromises outweigh the positive effects? Are flattening situations, or standardizing they supporting, running parallel to, or moving responses. Flexibility is the key to avoiding away from the system? Can they support or stagnation of ideas and activities. Whether compliment, or are they in conflict with or ideological or physical, it is important to think limiting, the possibility of insurrectionary outside of our (or their) boxes, however radical moments? Is their creation needed to move we think our ideas are; it is the only way we A QUEST AMONG the BEWILDERED towards a revolutionary situation? Are they may grow. Yes, there are times to draw lines, Living does not come cheaply nor easily in Babylon — not here at the pinnacle of post- restricting the movement towards a revolutionary to place limitations or borders around things, post-industrial society — in America, the Disneyland of the World. I’m not talking about situation? For example, we need to obtain but these should be temporary and consensual thriving or prospering, but merely surviving as something more than a seething lump of flesh our physical nourishment from somewhere. black and white directions and activities in a clinging to a hollow bone shell, guided by an acutely socialized computer we call a brain. Some anarcho-primitivists take a more absolutist larger sea of gray. The gray line is what holds I don’t regard that as living. approach in stating that the only appropriate us together, and at the same time, respects No, these mechanisms do survive and prosper in, and indeed define, the Babylonian world. skills to be learning in this regard center around individuality and the moment. Babylon rewards them for their ignorance, their arrogance, their ruthless greed and their submission to their own untended fears. The Babylonian machine (call it “the system” if you hunting and gathering. While many primitivists Create, live, and experience must, but do not place it entirely outside yourself (ourselves), for that is its greatest trap) pits and green anarchists agree that this form of anarchy now! each being against another in senseless competition: for the “privilege” of schooling and subsistence is ideal, preferable, and least meaningful employment, for recognition and attention, for intellectual and moral superiority, dominating, the fact is, this is almost “The problem that confronts us for the most subservient lovers. Here, vanity wields its paralyzing glance against the living impossible at this time for most people. The today, and which the nearest future like a Medusa. reconciliation for many is to learn methods of is to solve, is how to be one’s self The Babylonian economic system supports the hostile aggressor, the one who seeks to control growing food such as some forms of and yet in oneness with others, to others in a master/servant relationship (owner/worker, landlord/tenant — the lines are not as permaculture, which are outside of the traditional feel deeply connected with all hu- indistinct as social scientists would like us to believe) either by usurping basic human methods of agriculture and in tune with natural man beings and still retain one’s resources (land, shelter, food, water) in order to profit from others’ needs, or by acquiescent processes. This is often done alongside learning own characteristic qualities” service to the dominant ones (This is second-hand control — that which we call the “business” primitive skills and with the understanding that - Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of or “management” class, but it is control just the same.). One’s status and value as a human is there is a certain level of domestication Woman’s Emancipation deduced by the amount of resources one controls. Babylon in turn rewards its dolts for their dependency on the system (in our society, it is not involved in growing food (but certainly far less “But I am not finished. I seem to the squeaky wheel which gets the grease, it is the squeaky wheel which gets removed, replaced then eating tofu at vegetarian restaurants). For be residing within a borderland that and thrown in the junk pile). It whitewashes the life force in the individual by inducing a fear many, this is one of numerous possibilities in is not a place of trauma and stress – for one’s own survival — compelling the individual to believe that one must conform to the a temporary transition, which can occur but not yet a place of healing. Some process of the Machine. We are a gullible lot; the lies have us by the throat, and our terror drives during a natural and human encouraged symptoms hang on, and there is a us with an insatiable madness to possess, control and consume everything that Babylon breeds. re-wilding process. feeling like on a rocky shoreline... At this moment, the iron jaws of Babylon wait to consume the last vestiges of life on this The last stretch of the journey is as planet which remain outside of its control. The demise of true freedom appears inevitable, at If we remain only in the analysis or visionary trying as was the beginning, I have ac- least until Babylon’s lust consumes its last victim, then turns back to consume itself with the realm, never getting our hands dirty or touching complished the bulk of the inner work, same ferocious insanity with which it consumed all life. Most cultures, even Babylonian the ground, we will go nowhere. We cannot be and yet I am still grappling to believe. culture, have in their mythology and literature an Armageddon or Doomsday prophecy. I don’t limited by only looking back or forward, and After a lifetime of knowing only the put much faith in prophecies. These are simply observations, made without judgment, about we must certainly do more than just look psychic fragmentation that has pro- which I am completely willing to be wrong. Just show me otherwise. (analyze/criticize/theorize). We must be willing tected me from the truth, to become But I also recognize that everywhere the system thrives, there are people struggling to to make mistakes and experiment. Anarchy is true to myself lies within vision – and survive — between the cogs and wheels and belts and circuits of this machine, living off the alive and organic and situation oriented. It is a yet seems beyond reach.” dismembered organs of life’s legacy, off the scraps of hope that organic, unfettered life on this process, not a historical framework, theoretical - Chellis Glendinning, planet may outlive the Babylonian machine. These are people striving to live as physically, emotionally and spiritually (I leave that definition up to you) integrated beings, aware of and game, or utopian endpoint. We must attempt Off the Map compatible with their environment. These are people living to free themselves of mental to effect the physical plane and make anarchy slavery — this idea that life should submit to humans (and a very select few, at that) rather than now, even if it is not complete or immaculate. humans submit to the natural process of life; free of the conception that humans have some It is in the process that we experience anarchy, “responsibility to” or “purpose in” the scheme of the cosmos; that we are somehow not in the idea or as a conclusion. The connection “important” to the survival of the universe. We are not. We could destroy ourselves and take the entire galaxy with us, and the universe wouldn’t even bat an eye. This egocentric self-importance is a childish fallacy (not child-like, by any means) which we must overcome for our own sake and the sake of the planet. (Then again, we can choose not to.) Perhaps the most difficult needs for fugitives of Babylon to fulfill are the psychic and emotional staples which are so readily, adamantly denied in modern society: support in coming to terms with the limits of our own humanity; in understanding that we are, as sentient beings, basically alone in the universe and to feel secure in experiencing that; in exploring one’s own individuality; in living as creatures of need; asking for help and feeling safe in offering help to others; in finding activity based on love rather than on the ego-fulfillment defined by Babylon’s “ladder of success,” and in securing our base, physical needs without the threat of indentured servitude in order to do so. If you think that I’m referring to Marxism or Socialism or revolution, or to this or that minority group or movement for change, you are wrong. The inherent failure in most demands for social change is that they seek the benefits of Babylon, not its demise. I don’t call this selling out, but rather, giving in to the fear induced by Babylon’s control. I can fault no one for that. Fear is a powerful force which, when not embraced, sublimely manifests itself in the most grotesque of mutations. If change is to come then we must lead by example, creating counter-cultures based on entirely new values. You cannot beat new values into people, but you can show them a different option and give them a choice. We are all subject to the psychic residue of Babylonian thought — all of us — the radical, the saint, the conformist and the reactionary. What hope there is in outliving the great beast lies in following our instincts to a different way of life — in retracing our emotional needs and our desires back to their source, in giving them priority over public opinion, and in having the courage to stand with them even when it means we stand alone. You are not alone, I assure you, even though physical reality screams otherwise. Unfortunately, meeting this challenge comes with no guarantees — not of being “right” or of proving something wrong, not of persuading others to see your point of view, not of anything. That is the nature of life itself; it’s a spin of the wheel and everyone’s got their own There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is lucky number. But perhaps, just perhaps, if enough of us believe and follow our paths, our a willingness to contemplate what is happening. luck won’t run out. Summer ‘03 page 5 GREEN ANARCHY #13 Thoughts on the City Progress never destroys as thoroughly as when it builds The necessity for space is eminently political. The places in marine military when it sinks the boats of the undocumented which we live condition the ways in which we live, and foreigners. In an interweaving of classist exclusion and racial inversely, our relationships and activities modify the spaces of segregation, the society in which we live increasingly looks our lives. It’s a question of daily experience, and yet we seem like a gigantic accumulation of ghettoes. incapable of drawing the tiniest result from it. One only needs Once again the link between the forms of life and the places to take a walk through any city to understand the nature of the of life is close. The increasing precariousness of broad layers small communities based on face-to-face relationships that are poverty of our way of life. Almost all urban space responds to of society proceeds at the same pace as the isolation of linked together, without hierarchies between human beings or two needs: profit and social control. They are places of individuals, with the disappearance of meeting spaces (and domination over nature. The journey would cease to be a consumption organized according to the increasingly strict rules therefore of struggle) and at the bottom, the reserves in which standardized transport between weariness and boredom and of a market in continuous expansion: the security market. The most of the poor are left to rot. From this social condition, two would become an adventure free of clocks. Fountains and model is that of the commercial center; a collective privatized typically totalitarian phenomena are born: the war between the sheltered places would welcome passers-by. Wild nature could space, watched by the people and instruments provided by the exploited, which reproduces without filters the ruthless once again become a place of discovery and stillness, of tremors appropriate agencies. In the commercial centers, an and escape from humanity. Villages could be born from increasingly “personalized” sociality is built around forests without violence in order to then return to the consumer and his family; now, one can eat, play being countryside and forest. We can’t even imagine with children, read, etc. in these neon places. But if how animals and plants would change when they no one enters without any money, one discovers that it is longer feel threatened by human beings. Only an alienated a terrifying illusion of life. humanity could conceive of accumulation, profit and The same thing happens, more or less, in the power as the basis for life on Earth. While the world metropolises. Where can one meet for discussion, of commodities is in liquidation, threatened by the where can one sit without the obligation to consume, implosion of all human contact and by ecological where can one drink, where can one sleep, if one has catastrophe, while young people slaughter each other no money? For an immigrant, for a poor person, for a and adults muddle through on psycho-pharmaceuticals, woman, a night in the city can be long. The moderates, exactly what is at stake becomes clearer: subverting comfortable in their houses, don’t know the nocturnal social relationships means creating new spaces for life world of the street, the dark side of the neon, when and vice versa. In this sense, a “vast operation of urgent the police wake you up on the benches, when everything demolition” awaits us. seems foreign and hostile to you. When the middle Mass industrial society destroys solitude and the classes are enclosed in their bunkers, cities reveal their pleasure of meeting at the same time. We are increasingly true faces as inhuman monsters. constrained to be together, due to forced displacements, Cities increasingly come to resemble fortresses, and standardized time, and mass-produced desires; yet we houses, security cells. Social war - the war between are increasingly isolated, unable to communicate, the rich and the poor, the governors and the governed devoured by anxiety and fear, unable, above all, to - is institutionalized in urban space. The poor are struggle together. Any real communication, any truly deported to the outskirts in order to leave the centers egalitarian dialogue can only take place through the to the offices and banks (or to the tourists). The entrances of competition and social climbing upon which capitalist rupture of normality and habit, only in revolt. the cities and a great many “sensitive” areas are watched by relationships are built, and the demand for order and security, In various parts of the world, the exploited refuse every illusion apparatuses that get more sophisticated every day. The lack of produced and sponsored by a propaganda that is perpetually about the best possible world, turning their feeling of total access to determined levels of consumption – levels defined hammered home. With the end of the “cold war”, the Enemy spoliation against power. Rising up against the exploiters and and controlled by a fixed computer network in which the data has been moved, both politically and through the media, into their guard dogs, against their property and their values, the of banking, insurance, medical, scholastic and police systems the interior of the “free world” itself. The collapse of the Berlin exploited discover new and old ways of being together, are woven together – determines, in the negative, the new Wall corresponds to the construction of the barriers between discussing, deciding and making merry. dangerous classes, who are confined in very precise urban Mexico and the United States or to the development of electronic From the Palestinian territories to the aarch (village assemblies) zones. The characteristics of the new world order are reflected barriers for the protection of the citadels inhabited by the ruling of the Algerian insurgents, uprisings free spaces for social self- in metropolitan control. The borders between countries and classes. The criminalization of the poor is openly described as organization. Often the rediscovered assembly forms are like continents correspond to the boundaries between neighborhoods a “war of low intensity”, where the enemy, “the exotic terrorist”, applications of old traditions of face-to-face relationships, hostile or to the magnetic cards for access to specific private buildings here becomes the illegal foreigner, the drug addict, the prostitute. to all representation, forged in the pride of other struggles, to or, as in the United States, to certain residential areas. International The isolated citizen, tossed about between work and consumption the current agenda. If violent rupture is the basis of uprisings, police operations recall the war against crime or, more recently, through those anonymous spaces that are the ways and means their capacity to experiment with other ways of living, in hope the politics of “zero tolerance” of transport, swallows terrifying images that the exploited elsewhere will stoke their flames, is what through which all forms of deviance of treacherous young people, slackers, renders them lasting, since even the most beautiful utopian are criminalized. While throughout the cut-throats – and an imprecise and practices die in isolation. world the poor are arrested by the millions, unconscious feeling of fear takes The places of power, even those that are not directly repressive, the cities assume the form of immense possession of individual and are destroyed in the course of riots not only because of their symbolic prisons. Don’t the yellow lines that collective life. weight, but also because, in power’s realms, there is no life. consumers have to follow in certain Our apparently peaceful cities Behind the problem of homes and collective spaces, there London commercial centers remind increasingly show us the marks of this stand an entire society. It is because so many work year after you of those on which some French planetary tendency to government year to pay off a loan simply to keep a roof over their head that prisoners have to walk? Isn’t it possible through fear, if we learn how to look they aren’t able to find either the will or the space to talk with to catch a glimpse of the checkpoints for them. each other about the absurdity of such a life. On the other hand, in the Palestinian territories in the If politics is defined as the art of the more that collective spaces are enclosed, privatized or brought militarization of Genoa during the G8 command, as a specialized activity that under state control, the more houses themselves become small, summit? Proposals for a nightly curfew is the monopoly of bureaucrats and grey, uniform and unhealthy fortresses. Without resistance, for adolescents have been approved in functionaries, then the cities in which everything is degraded at a startling speed. Where peasants cities just two steps away from ours we live are the political organization lived and cultivated the land for the rich as recently as fifty (in France for example). The houses of space. If, on the other hand, it is years ago, now the people of rank live. The current residential of correction reopen, a kind of penal defined as a common sphere for neighborhoods are the most unlivable of the common houses of colony for youth; assembling in the discussion and decisions regarding thirty years ago. Luxury hotels seem like barracks. The logical inner courtyards of the popular common problems, then one could say consequences of this totalitarianism in urban planning are those condominiums (the only space for that the urban structure is projected sorts of tombs in which Japanese employees reload their batteries. collective life in many sleeping quarters) intentionally toward depoliticizing The classes that exploit the poor are, in their turn, mistreated by the is banned. Already, in most European individuals in order to keep them in system that they have always zealously defended. cities, the homeless are forbidden isolation and lost in the mass at the Practicing direct action in order to snatch the spaces for life access to the city center and beggars same time. In the second case, therefore, from power and profit, occupying houses and experimenting are fined, like in the Middle Ages. One the political activity par excellence is with subversive relationships, is a very different thing from may propose (like the Nazis of revolt against urban planning as any sort of more or less fashionable alternative juvenilism. It yesterday and the mayor of Milan to- police science and practice; it is the is a matter that concerns all the exploited, the left-out, the day) the creation of suitable centers for the unemployed and uprising that creates new spaces for encounter and voiceless. It’s a question of discussing and organizing without their families, modeled after the lagers for undocumented communication. In either sense, the question of space is an mediators, of placing the self-determination of our relationships immigrants. Metallic grids are built between rich (and white) eminently political question. and spaces against the constituted order, and of attacking the neighborhoods and poor (and… non-white) neighborhoods. A full life is a life that is able to skillfully mix the pleasure of urban cages. In fact, we do not think that it is possible to cut Social apartheid is advancing, from the United States to solitude and the pleasure of encounter. A wise intermingling ourselves out any space within this society that is truly Europe, from the south to the north of the world. When one in of villages and countryside, of plazas and free expanses could self-organized where we can live our own way. Our desires three blacks between the ages of 20 and 35 get locked up in render the art of building and dwelling magnificent. If, with a are far too excessive. We want to create breaches, go out into cells (as occurs in the United States), the proposal for utopian leap, we project ourselves outside of industrialism and the streets, speak in the plazas, in search of accomplices for closing the city centers to immigrants here can pass almost urbanization, in short outside of the long history of removal on making the assault on the old world. Life in society is to be unobserved by us. And many may even applaud the glorious which the current technological society is built, we can imagine reinvented. This is everything. GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 6 Summer ‘03 They don’t attempt exhibitionist actions in order to make propaganda as some acronym or mark of origin. In the case of the Asturias, sabotage was a class weapon used innumerable OnOn SabotageSabotage asas times, particularly in labor conflicts with these enterprises: Duro Felguera, Hunosa, Naval and Ciata... (Asturian businesses and mines where sabotage was determinant in the struggles going on in the 1990’s); every weary person, regardless of her or his One of the Fine Arts: ideology, uses it. From the clerk who steals office supplies to One of the Fine Arts: the worker who damages the machine to which he is chained, passing through the use of plastic explosives like the licensed professionals of Duro Felguera. Today, the example is the A contribution to the topic of the theory of the practice of Sabotage burning of the ETTs (temporary employment agencies). The -1- A self-critical hypocrite directed by its own police of practice of sabotage remains limited to precise and very localized Who will revive the violent whirlpools of flame if not us decomposed thought (pro-situationists, cadres, non-governmental conflicts, without global perspectives, simply aiming for partial and those that we consider brothers? organizations, recuperators, artists, journalists... the clique of solutions with economic demands that remain within imposed Come! New friends: this will please you. politically correct alternatives). limits where capitalist logic unfolds. The same holds in the We will never work, oh tides of flame! These toilet brushes of modernity, like good priests, hope case of the ETTs, an attack that goes beyond the temporality This world will explode. that with their patches, the proper development of the system of a conflict in one enterprise, but that does not place wage It’s the true path. Forward, on the march. will lead us, hand in hand, into an ideal world planned by their slavery into question. Instead it only questions its most — A. Rimbaud false consciousness and by the putridity of their armored brains; extreme form, not aiming at putting an end to exploitation, but as if they had ever given rather to the ETTs. Today The spread of sabotage, its increasing practice, on a greater or us anything. Their social “Misdirecting our attention toward partial objectives the conflict is global and lesser scale, against the domination of the market, is a given function, which has only benefits the managers of our misery and those it is not resolved through fact. Burning ATM booths, disabling locks at shopping centers, been denounced for partial struggles, but smashing shop windows, setting fire to the offices of temp decades already, has who will one day lay claim to its management, and through total struggle and agencies and employment offices, the sabotage of the been worth more to them both are among the targets for sabotage.” through the refusal of this infrastructure of capitalism (high-speed railroads, dams, than any aggressions, society as a whole. It is expressways, construction projects) ... are offensive practices beatings or assassinations, and we are sure that these will not necessary to put an end to the reduction of our lives to against the colonization of our lives by the most advanced form be mere anecdotes. They deceive and manipulate us. We must commodities and to wage labor that wears us out, not just to of colonialism — the integrated spectacle. not allow them to have a single day more. They are the ETTs. We must put an end to class society and not just All this is put into practice by individuals bored with survival guardians to the keys of our informal chains. They amuse us fascism. Misdirecting our attention toward partial objectives as commodities (life reduced to economic imperatives) and with insignificant debates. They impose their opinions on us, only benefits the managers of our misery and those who will disillusioned with false opposition (more false and less avoiding questions so simple that they would make them one day lay claim to its management, and both are among the oppositional with each day that goes by), parties and unions tremble with terror: How best to live? Who and what keeps us targets for sabotage. that want to manage our misery and integrate us into a mode from this? Questions that immediately unmask the professionals The widespread practice of sabotage (unhindered autonomy, of production that prevents us from any participation in the of the lie. Critical coherence and the critique of incoherence maximum flexibility, self-organization, minimum risk) among decisions that relate directly to us and that assist in enslaving aid in this operation. like-minded individuals, opens the possibility for real us, mutilating every gesture of negation of the existent. communication, destroying spectacular communication, The spectacle writes the scenario and distributes the roles: -3- smashing the apathy and impotence of the eternal revolutionist worker, professional, student, housewife, mother, father, son, Injustice is not anonymous; it has a name and an address. monologue. Relationships and the possibility of contact with daughter, unemployed, police, soldier, artist, humanitarian, — Bertold Brecht other people in the refusal of the spectacular role, these are intellectual... the majority, individuals who assume different Situationist theory, as integral critique of the totality of the transient situations that in their preparation and development roles in the course of 24 hours, see their existence as still more conditions of survival and of the mercantile-spectacular carry in their essence the qualities of the revolutionary terrible, assuming this is possible. Everyone with his neurotic- capitalism that necessitates them, has been confirmed in events situation that will not retreat and that will suppress the schizoid viewpoint that will react to the stimuli launched by by falsification. conditions of survival. It does not fall into the irremediable power in the way that was already expected. One cannot fight alienation by means of alienated forms. The alienating hierarchization that every specialized armed group of All social activity is planned in order to reinforce the spectacle, sabotage of this world starts with the break with the roles the an authoritarian and militaristic character, to which the masses thus slowing down its unstoppable process of decomposition. system imposes on us, the sabotage of our death in life and the delegate their participation in the attack, carries within itself. Though we don’t want to hear the shrieking of militants of refusal of the roles that they have allotted and appointed to us. The quantitative growth of this practice does not come to whatever organization, clearly we are not against the concept To speak of the Revolution in these times is “to have a corpse us from the hands of propagandists of the spectacle, but rather of “organization” as such, but against “organization” conceived in one’s mouth”. We only need to look around ourselves to see by taking a walk through the scenario of capitalism, and finding as an end in itself, as the crystallization of any ideology, and as a scenario that constantly reminds us of the defeat. Sabotage is in this drift the burned ATM, the ETTs with shattered windows, a separated organ, representing a class. thus an action that serves as a propellant against the unreality the smiths changing the locks of a supermarket. These visions We are for the autonomous self-organization of the exploited. that oppresses us. A practice that has not gone unnoticed by make our complicit smiles blossom and move us to go out that History has shown through two clear examples that the ideological recuperation, which has transformed it into very night to play with fire with the aim of making the same traditional form of the party (Russian revolution) and union “terrorism” (the professionalization of sabotage that has done smiles rise on the faces of unknown accomplices through the (Spanish revolution) were nothing more than two attempts to no more than reinforce the system, due to its centralist, fellowship of destruction. The number doesn’t matter, but rather manage capitalism and not to overcome it, and this is something hierarchical and militarist character). Today, what is proposed the quality of the acts: sabotage, expropriations, self- that, consciously or unconsciously, everybody knows. In the is not the creation of an armed organization of this type, but reduction... they return part of the life that is denied us back seizure of power, it is not destroyed, but exercised: in the first widespread attack by small affinity groups, uncontrollable by to us, but we want it all. case, the class of bureaucrats replaced the bourgeoisie, and in any higher organization, that come together and dissolve like Comrades, the game is yours and we take courage in its daily the other case, the anarcho-syndicalist leaders participated in the lunar tides. The tides that are born of the awareness of how practice. Organize it yourselves with your accomplices. bourgeois power, calling for the self-management of exploitation bad things are and of the worsening that awaits us due to events. Against the old world in all its expressions, in order to leave and alienation, while the base tried to overcome the In the 19th century, such a practice existed that put the in- pre-history, let’s launch and multiply attacks. relationships of production and social relationships in practice cipient capitalism in check. Beyond the Luddite attacks, the through the direct management of every aspect of their lives “proletarian rounds” rendered their repression and recuperation, by The Asturian Institute of Comparative Vandalism and not just work. in which the embryonic unions would play a role, almost To be precise, both forms have the exaltation of work in impossible due to their lack of a rigid structure and their common (something that they also share with national- maximum flexibility in attacks. A group of people came together, Create Spontaneity socialism and with every political form of capitalism). struck and disappeared into the mass, while a new group came Their quantitative vision sought an increase in production, together within it. Such widespread sabotage makes it difficult leaving aside the qualitative increase of life. This (practical for the enemy to organize repression. Thus it transforms the and theoretical) defeat of the traditional organizations, which attack into a universe of pleasure for the enlightened hooligan, claim to represent us, has not been absorbed by the working the feelings of which are impossible to describe or communicate class (it seems that we only know how to work), and we go with the poor and banal language of words. along without maintaining any possibility of control over The game of subversion, the rules of which are written by essential aspects of our lives, in a world that is developed, not those that participate in it, becomes an effective weapon against only without our participation, but against us. capitalism in all its forms. But, comrades, history is not cyclic; it is a cumulative process There is much more to destroy than to build. and already weighs too heavily upon our weary bodies. -4- -2- Our epoch does not need to write poetic slogans, but to realize them. Never did mockers waste more idle breath. — Situationist International — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream It has been demonstrated that small groups that attack do more The contradiction between the possibilities of the means of damage than large organizations that specialize in armed struggle. production (the use of a few of them for the enjoyment of all, The Angry Brigade continued its actions when people were since most of them are useless and harmful and would be arrested and the English state assumed the movement had fallen destroyed) and the relations of production (waged exploitation, apart. The Kale Borroka (street struggle) in Euskadi, which Jarrai commodification, the exclusions of class society) has reached (the youth organization of the Basque nationalist left, NDR) an insurmountable point of rupture. In the spectacle it is easier recently declared uncontrollable, is another example. Power has to falsify the nature of this contradiction than to increase difficulty repressing and eliminating little groups that with complete mercantile production with increasing use value. This inertia security do not know each other, and the only thing that unites forces it to display all of its methods for recuperating any real them is the desire for the destruction of a system that prevents movement of opposition and to turn the spectacular critique of them from living and condemns them to survival and uncertainty. Deny the ritual the spectacle to its advantage. Summer ‘03 page 7 GREEN ANARCHY #13 ZERO WAR – TOTAL LIBERATION

The cyber-industrial civilization of capital is literally of empowerment often necessary for people to launch assaults always at war. In fact, since the first development of class on capital. Intimidated by soldiers in the streets, planes in the society violence has been a key component to the maintenance air and the rule of martial law, disobedient populations can be of order. Wars of extermination and colonization were cowed into acquiescence. fought to include more and more territories within the In what remains of the global “North” (as much as that has sphere of individual imperialist markets. Wars were fought any meaning in these post-modern times of Empire) the use of between individual imperialist powers. As Zerzan identifies, war to increase the governmentality of the society of control is the motivations of imperialist conflicts were often attempts far more subtle. The recent experience in Australia suggests to control the population at home.2 Class society has never that the pretext of the war on terror is being used to legitimize seen peace and is always in a constant state of conflict. and intensify state violence against dissidents. Even more all- The so-called “war on terror” may appear to be a sudden encompassing is the use of the discourse of national security to and sharp break with the past, but in reality it is an intensify the repressive nature of all the networks of bio-political intensification of a process that has accompanied authority. Militarization is a society-encompassing spectacle neo-liberalism as capitalist rackets around the globe have that radiates and mutates out from TVs, radios, and conversations thethe dailydaily newspapernewspaper provesproves therethere isis nono wayway ofof turningturning backback moved to direct violence to reinsure their power. in the street. It takes on emotional, psychological forms that It is this later motivation for war that is increasingly generate a sense of fear and hopelessness within the population important to the status quo. As Hardt and Negri write in about the very future of humanity. The real alienation and Empire the entire globe has fallen under the domination atomization that make up daily life in cyber-industrial civilization of Capital, and a shifting multi-centered world order now are telescoped to unbearable proportions. This spectacle of administers it all. Thus war today is not between different, militarization makes individuals feel completely powerless and separate imperialist powers or to include territories within at the mercy of global political and economic forces. Faced capitalism. Rather it is between factions within a unitary with a seeming gulf of violence beyond comprehension, people – if hybrid – empire that dominates the globe yet struggles begin to long intensely for the strong hand of the state to to control the resistance from the multitude. Whilst in their protect and guard them. Paranoia reaches fantastic heights as respective propaganda Islamists and ‘Western’ ethnic minorities become increasingly focused on as the politicians try to define each other as mortal enemies, “enemy within”. Coupled with this are feelings of sympathy they both have the same goal in mind: the continuation of for the armed wing of the state and its successes. A savage the empire of capital. brutalization takes place where people in the malls and War thus is increasingly used to re-colonize the globe – workplaces of Sydney begin to believe the security of themselves however not for one single nation-state but for capital and their loved ones can only be guaranteed by the deaths of Introduction generally. This is achieved through the application and people in Iraq. extension of bio-power. “Bio-power is the form of power that Bio-political control, however, is not the just the ideological This article has had to go though numerous revisions and regulates social life from its interior, following it, inter- hegemony of the system: it is not simply the dominance of rewrites in a desperate and often failing attempt to stay ‘current’. preting it, absorbing it and ideas. Bio-political power Indeed one of the most difficult things we face in resisting rearticulating it. Power can arises when all of society is Capital’s bloody adventures (or bloody banalities if you prefer) achieve an effective command subsumed within the apparatus is the global dimensions of this global war. By this I don’t just over the entire life of the of capital: when life becomes mean physical space, but maybe less tangible elements that population only when it dominated by the mega- work to reinforce the tangible nature of our current oppression. becomes an integral, vital technological world of work. For one the “war on terror” is working to reinforce and deepen function that every individual Militarization is, if anything, an a globalised temporal order. The global size of the planning embraces and reactivates of his extension of all the techniques 3 and execution of the war (and its simultaneous transformation or her own accord”. Bio-power and technologies of control. into news/entertainment/marketing) happens in a digital/artificial is the way that control is created The division of labor, “Real Time”©. The speed of these endeavors is ever increasing, when life is subsumed by the specialization, the reduction of and the multitude on the whole is left to spectate on a logics and apparatus of capital. the individual into a cog in a bewildering display of men in suits, tanks and special effects. It is the way that the discipline machine, the reification of The ever increasing pace of the war (and for that matter the of the system is found in the technological ability and the rest of the global order - can you make a distinction?) makes it entire minutiae that constitute dominance of functional reason difficult to think, conceptualize and act. everyday life. It is used in – isn’t all this expressed numerous ways. Firstly there perfectly in the armed forces, Beyond Anti-Americanism is no better way to enclose land in the military-industrial and destroy subsistence complex? And conversely is … I awoke in a sweat from the American Dream non-market ways of life than not the process of militarization - Amebix war. Throughout the globe the intensification of all of the One of the first failings of the resistance against militarization militarization is used to force above throughout all of society? is intellectual. There seems to be a sloppy anti-Americanism people into proletarianization. The post-modern nature of the that abounds throughout anti-war sentiment in Australia. This Mass bombings, the torturing society of control is evidenced anti-Americanism is attractive to many because it is something of civilians, the imprisoning of in the collapse of rigid of an antidote to the cynical flag waving and rhetoric that whole villages in camps, their subjectivities. The intensification parades across our screens. It is also credible since it identifies transformation into refugees, of the “soldier” socially is the the litany of violent and abusive acts carried out by the US even supposedly beneficial intensification of the “soldier” State. However, to identify the causes of global militarization food aid, enforces the logic of in all of us: our willingness to as a product of a particularly nauseating element of US foreign capital – of being governed and be trained, ordered, obedient policy (the idea that “the seppos 1 want to take over the world” controlled by agencies of the state and dependent on the global and subjected to surveillance. Conversely, it is also our or that “George W is a moron” – common sentiments in economy – into peoples’ everyday lives. Indeed in many parts willingness to produce ourselves and others as soldiers: to order, Australian society) is overly simplistic. Militarisation arises of the world war is the only business in town and soldiering to command and to subject those around us to surveillance. not from the US specifically but from a general crisis within the only ‘profession’. Evidence of the above is the announcement that Australia the global empire of capital. Whilst the US does have a specific Subtle methods are often at work. The mapping of land by Post now requires that you show photo ID if you are sending a role in this world order as a major spoke in the composition the military, the construction of military infrastructure is package over 500 gm overseas. Here is an example of where and organization of military and economic forces, the current often the vanguard for the construction of the general apparatus the practice of surveillance and policing intensifies in seemingly war is a product of the capital generally. Indeed if anything the of the global economy and the inclusion of previously peripheral innocent every-day situations. Thus mass society, made up of “war on terror”- loose short-hand for multiple conflicts populations into the matrix of cyber-industrial civilization. the lashing together of alienated and atomized individuals, between numerous states and states in waiting - is a failing Indeed there is no better example of this than that of the becomes even more atrophied as everyone carries out the work and destructive attempt by capitalism to resolve its unsolvable Laguasa marsh in the Philippines (the site of a decades long of the state. contradictions: it is an attempt to control an increasingly Islamic insurgency which is now just a sphere of the “war on combative, self-organized and revolutionary multitude. terror”), where the military napalmed the marsh into black military forces of the social factory soil thus literally clearing it of people and life and opening the The Re-colonization of the Globe way for its development into a tourist resort. Through the history of capitalism revolutionary resistance to For populations already proletarianized, war is a crucial tool war was based on the refusal to participate in the war machine. And the history of this, their expropriation is used to decompose their agencies of self-activity. A case in Soldiers would mutiny; others would resist conscription or refuse to sign up. Paralleling industrial action in the mass written in the annals of mankind in letters of point would be that after and during the last Gulf War, the militant oil proletariat throughout the region (including in factory, it was the withdrawal of labor from the military blood and fire. - Karl Marx newly “liberated” Kuwait) suffered greatly through intensified factory. This undoubtedly reached a high point in the Vietnam The individual motivations of Generals in Washington or state violence. War increased the naked violence of the state War where the refusal to accept military labor inside and Saudi Princelings are beyond the ken of lowly proles such as in peoples’ lives, whether it was through the carpet-bombing outside of the armed forces reached epidemic proportions. The myself. The specific individual histories of individual conflict of Basra or the torturing and disappearance of Palestinians at desertion and mutiny by Iraqi soldiers did far more to end the that motivate the “war on terror” are beyond the scope of this the hands of US trained Kuwaiti secret police. The increased last Gulf War than US smart bombs. article, however we can make some general observations about marginality people face in their lives from war, their increased It is thus increasingly obvious that the use of mass soldiering the role of war to the global ruling class. insecurity, their displacement, works to break down the feelings with mass casualties creates political unrest both inside and GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 8 Summer ‘03 TOTAL LIBERATION - ZEROZERO WARWAR outside the ranks. The days of mass soldiering were tied to It is incredibly depressing when people go to a rally to those of the dominance of the nation-state. In contrast the protest, say, the increased bombing of Iraq, on numerous process of globalization has seen with it the creation of global occasions and witness that the rally has no effect what-so-ever. networks of organized violence that Here a strategy of “protest as are co-ordinated through many “Generally these demos usual”, with its regimentation points. At the center is always a hub and ineffectuality works to of the covert, intelligence and replicate all that is wrong with complement the effects of the special forces of the Global North state: to convince people that and around them cheap proxy armies mass society. Small groups of they are powerless. Indeed the and mercenaries which the former “organizers” fight bitterly in strategy of rally after rally is now often trains and co-ordinates. In the thoroughly exhausted with muddied world of international meetings over slogans and numbers dwindling after the politics, these networks are often coalition military victory, and constructed with whatever is at hand speakers... Those who then do the “leadership” is fracturing as and often appear quite illogical and show up are asked to follow a various Leftist sects battle for contradictory. Also whilst capitalism control and recruits. is a global system having no home strict and regimented path, This is not the whole picture country, it is not homogenous: splits and occasionally those of us who and rifts at all levels of the ruling often marshaled, chant when do turn up have a nice time, class are common and often violent. they are required to chant and make our own networks, or In fact the change in relationship break away from the marshals to between US forces and Islamist listen to speakers… They seem take more combative action. In groups like Al-Qaeda is proof of this. fact, globally more and more people necessity of combating the state twist the vision of liberation. Is this current conflict not in many to mirror the rest of every day are willing to defy both the State If we do, in the current context we extend the terrorizing of ways an officers’ rebellion within a and the embodied statist ideology life: being ordered around by social relationships and thus the feelings of powerlessness of single military force? . of the rally organizers. From the people. Revolution is the weaving together of revolt and We have, however, still seen the heckling speakers to fighting the our betters.” dismantling hierarchy, not self-militarization deployment of large numbers of police, a conscious practical ground troops from the Global North. Though whilst their last critique of pacifism has exploded onto the world’s streets, deployment is a massive operation, and creates the feeling of often to the embarrassment and disgust of the liberals and Towards Festivals of Refusal total war, the soldiers themselves seemed to be put into very “cadre” trying to shepherd the multitude. We can fight it only by showing an equally little real danger. Their purpose is spectacular, to create the feeling at home that there is a lot on the line. Thus the few Militancy as Self-Militarisation strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences soldiers that do die are transformed into heroes and martyrs of habit and language are nothing at all if our whose deaths are given a weight and importance that in life How can you celebrate a revolution with a rifle butt? aims are identical and our hearts are open. the system never gave them. - Jacques Camatte - Albus Dumbledore For us then in Australia (and I suspect the rest of the Global Outside of this, small groups of the multitude, often those Stopping war and the revolution against the empire of capital North) our refusal to fight is relatively meaningless as our that politically identify as “revolutionaries”, are trying (often are one and the same. Militarization is a direct challenge to the labor is superfluous to the global war machine. We are in vain) to find more effective and potent methods of struggle. recent upsurge of proletarian fury and self-activity, and war unneeded, and thus new ways of struggle, more active This is all happening in a context in Australia, where combative will always exist whilst class society exists. As a general point insurgencies are needed to destabilize Capital. direct action has flared up in the last couple of years. Coupled then the best way to stop war is to keep on fighting. The with this is an increase in state repression and the sophistication multiplicity of revolts – large and small, overt and covert - Protest As Usual and brutality of the cops. Whilst the often boring, rigid, codified must keep on going, building, circulating and intertwining. and predictable debate between “violence and non-violence” However the broader struggle is difficult, if not impossible So far the anti-war struggles in Australia have been rages, the reality is that on the streets, any attempts to disrupt unless it faces the challenges of potentially endless militarization. confined mainly to street demonstrations of varying size. They the circuitry of Capital has to take seriously the issue of Two difficult tasks loom: how to construct positive social have been largely organized by social democratic and Leninist confronting and combating the state. relationships that allow the opportunity to revolt to manifest; groupings, though the political flavor of them is generally However, some comrades faced and how to manifest revolts liberal: clergy, trade union leaders, and various do-gooders with increased state violence have which will allow the construction dominate the podium. Originally after the September 11 reduced the questions of confronting of positive social relationships. attacks these demos were a breath of fresh air. They worked to the state to purely military ones: a What we need is to actualize undermine the consensus that “everyone” supported the war, question of physical strength and revolts of insurgent desire. and combated the feelings of isolation felt by the dissenters. conflict. This is a fundamental If the drive behind militarization Street demos do and will have a place in struggle. They can mistake. It is a truism that since is to reinforce the governmentality draw people together and can have an important morale lifting capitalism is a social system based of the population then the best effect. However this only works when the demos take place in on violence that any attempt to thing to do is to be as ungovernable the context of larger, more combative militant struggles. In overthrow it must be prepared to as possible. I imagine the only their current context they are proving to be increasingly fight. It is also true that the process thing that will prevent war and disempowering, ineffectual and demoralizing. Why is this so? of insurrection, which often push back militarization is a Demos are in many ways left over from the last great involves physical confrontation, is general wave of disobedience upsurge in struggle. Throughout the 20th century, the working a crucial part of the upsurge for and defiance, a society-wide class engaged in long running militant actions: strikes, liberation. However violence in mutiny that through its own actions occupations, pickets, etc. Rallies played a part in this. general is not only distasteful, it is makes the continuation of the However since the early ‘80s the combative elements of brutalizing and the product of class status quo impossible. This mutiny struggle have become largely submerged, only to explode society. The revolt against oppression would have no “leaders” and out in various direct actions. On the whole though the praxis is a revolt that hopes to remove take countless forms of defiance of the Left focuses on just a strategy of demo after demo. violence permanently from our and non-compliance. Thus no Generally these demos replicate all that is wrong with mass lives. The longer violence lingers single group or single action can society. Small groups of “organizers” fight bitterly in meetings the more it deforms and twists spark it off. However we can over slogans and speakers; groups of “activists” engage in movements of liberation. make bold strokes that increase hyperactively paced work to build the rally, such as postering Firstly, it is important to realize the power and strength of the and leafleting in an attempt to get the “masses” to show up. that the unleashing of continual weave of revolt and inspire Those who then do show up are asked to follow a strict and global militarization terrorizes others to do the same. regimented path, often marshaled, chant when they are required people by confronting them with a Firstly, whilst the “realists” of to chant and listen to speakers. The success of the rally is based seemingly endless cycle of violence. various social democratic and on either the number of people who turned up, media coverage, Revolutionaries who fetishize Leninist groups and the few or how many people joined the various left grouplets. They violence, who adorn the process of social liberation in the anarchist rackets desperate to look “hard” may scoff at counter- are generally regimented and boring. They seem to mirror the symbols of destruction (guns, hand grenades, etc) can feed this culture, never has it been more relevant. Never before has dancing rest of everyday life: being ordered around by our betters. cycle. How can we celebrate the gun? We can celebrate the and socializing, forming friendships and feelings of autonomy The essential flaw is that the strategy of demos is based on human in struggle, but not the commodity they use as part of and rebelliousness been so important. To put it another way, the mediating away the power of people to a different source. The the struggle. Indeed the fetishism of tools of war and thus the micropolitical revolts and mutations that make up counter-culture argument goes that through a show of numbers or good copy devaluation of human life is a continuation of the logic of class begin to pull at the atrophied nature of everyday life and create/ in the paper, that the rally will convince the relevant authorities society. The question of confronting the violence and power mutate new pathways of living. Here can we see the seed of the to change their mind. of cyber-industrial civilization is a question of how can we future. So go ahead, put on that gig, pirate that CD, write that There is a kernel of truth in this in that often the state manifest anti-power and anti-violence that can hollow out and zine, take those pills and go dancing. (As always I recommend will worry about the potential of demos to transform into topple the state and the market. We should be realistic about listening to thrash 7 inches – if this can be done from the aircraft more radical activity and thus change their behavior. On the violence inherent in Capital, we should celebrate all carrier you have just squatted, all the better.) the whole though the demonstration is largely either revolts of the multitude, but we should not however allow the ridiculed or ignored. ...continued on page 11 Summer ‘03 page 9 GREEN ANARCHY #13 BringBringBringBring TheTheTheThe WarWarWarWar Home!Home!Home!Home! Actions Against the War Machine After vandalism, ROTC drops uniforms “ An act of vandalism against a symbol of the Tomorrow, we must immediately take the war to the enemy, U.S. military on the University of Iowa (UI) leave him no rest, harassing him, cutting off his breath.” campus over Spring Break prompted leaders to - Frantz Fanon stop requiring cadets to wear uniforms to class. Authorities are looking for a person who Chile: Bomb Attack Against Bank U.S. Special Operations and CIA forces have On the UN Security Council, the U.S. delegates smashed two glass doors at the Reserve Santiago: A small bomb exploded after hours been working inside Iraq to foment unrest and have always supported the most ruthless and Officer Training Corps office in the South at a Santiago branch of the U.S.-based help lay the groundwork for an invasion. A draconian measures against civilian populations. Quadrangle building and spray-painted such BankBoston, in what is believed to be a constant bombardment of propaganda from It spearheaded a resolution in December that slogans as “Stop U.S. military research” and protest against the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The the U.S. military has also been underway. banned the importation of pharmaceutical “Fuck all wars” on four other UI buildings bomb, which exploded outside the bank at 240,000 leaflets have been dropped around drugs into Iraq. When issues of Washington’s between March 20 and 21. The U.S. Army around 11p.m., smashed windows and Iraq, threatening Iraqis that if U.S. and British own accountability are in question, it abstains Cadet Command advised military leaders on destroyed an automatic cash machine as well troops were fired upon that it would lead to or uses its veto power as was done with the college campuses to be aware of their as causing minor damage to two adjacent more severe bombing. Also, bombing has been Kyoto Agreement and with the reparation surroundings and to avoid public confrontations. stores. There were no injuries. A spokesman continuous throughout the past 13 years. It debate in South Africa. Washington has been According to police reports pigs found the said police found a pamphlet at the site that has devastated Iraq’s infrastructure, leading intent on invading Iraq for many months now, words “Bomb Bush” scrawled in red spray paint said “death to the empire,” which he and it is illustrated by its actions. on the northwest corner of the IMU and the took as a reference to the United The evidence is overwhelming: words “USA = EMPIRE” with peace and States. Nobody claimed responsibility the U.S. government... is prepared anarchy symbols on the north side of the for the attack. A smaller explosive to potentially murder millions of Becker Communication Studies Building. that caused no damage was planted Iraqis to extend its hegemony over Patrol guards also located the phrases last weekend at the same the oil-rich Middle East region. As “Freedom dies when bombs fall” and “Fuck war” BankBoston branch. A recent opinion Americans, they expect us to simply in red paint on the exterior of the building. The poll revealed that 98 percent of Chileans watch TV and “endure” any words “USA: rogue state” also appeared in opposed U.S. military action in Iraq. desperate attacks against US green paint on the building’s electrical station. interests. They expect us to be March 17, New Jersey: bystanders and pawns of a Corporate Icons Brace For Backlash Communiqué From The Direct government that is prepared to U.S. corporate icons such as Starbucks Action Front throw the world into a massive Corporation, Coca-Cola Co. and the McDonald’s Edison: The following is from a war. We are calling upon all corporation are bracing for trouble and stepping communiqué that was released on Americans to act upon their up security since the war in Iraq has stoked the internet by the Direct Action responsibilities and hold this anti-American sentiment worldwide and will Front: “It has been announced by the government accountable for its most likely unleash violence against all U.S. government that a unilateral crimes against humanity. We call emblems of U.S. imperialism. U.S. multinationals, invasion of Iraq will begin on upon all humane, reasonable and which generate substantial revenues overseas, Wednesday at 8pm. This is 48 hours sane voices... to take any means are boosting plant security, armed guards, from the time that the ultimatum was to widespread malnutrition and disease. necessary to prevent this humanitarian disaster increasing staff training and instituting back- communicated to the public through the corporate Every humanitarian and research organization from happening. If profit is their motive, then ground checks on potential employees and media. In response to this, the Armed Forces from Oxfam to Middle East Research Project make it unprofitable. If passive consumption is rank-and-file workers like cashiers and drivers, Recruiting Center on Old Post Road in Edison, predicts a catastrophic humanitarian disaster what they want, then actively dissent. If they security advisers said. “If you hate America, NJ was the target of direct action. The intent for Iraqi citizens when there is an invasion. want you to participate in the slaughter, then it’s real easy to hate Coke or McDonald’s”, said was to cause as much economic damage as Who is paying for this invasion? The amount refuse...Our imperial government may try as much Lawrence McNaughlin, who heads CoreBrand, possible. Specifically it was intended to of resources necessary to conduct an invasion as it wants, but history shows that humanity will a Connecticut-based brand consulting firm. increase the costs to pursue the invasion and of this sort have been subsidized from the always endure and continue the struggle for a “The two primary criteria for risk are if you’re to eliminate another piece of the American American public, and the corporate media has better world. Onward to social revolution! in business in the Middle East and you’re a military-industrial complex. The front door was made every effort to be sure that the debate In solidarity, The Direct Action Front” cultural icon.” shattered and the inside was methodically is kept closed. As the military build-up around YANKEE GO HOME destroyed. Front displays were damaged, Iraq has been underway, the unemployment March 20, Minnesota: Recruiting Security experts say the most vulnerable propaganda was scattered, and marine rate in the U.S. reached the highest it has been Center Hit By Anti-Imperialists sector may be the fast-food in 9 years. The U.S. still scores Minneapolis: The following is a communiqué industry, led by hamburger Molotov last amongst all industrialized that was sent out over the internet: On the despot McDonald’s Corp., nations in health care, according Night of March 20th opponents of the U.S. war whose 30,000 worldwide stores cocktails to the World Health Organization. on Iraq hit the Stadium Village Army Navy with their distinctive Golden fly in This year, every city government Recruiting Center in Minneapolis. Locks were Arches are the most recognized Greece! in America, for the first time in glued, paint bombs thrown and windows symbols of American culture. The history, reported an increase in broken. This is not about some abstract company also has a substantial hunger at the U.S. Conference of concept of peace, this is about stopping U.S. presence in the Middle East. Mayors. All the while, the Bush imperialism. Polite protest has not worked. It Increased hostility toward administration continues to push is time we intervene directly. There are rocks America has already led to a few for the ending of taxes on stock everywhere and the week has seven nights. attacks on businesses linked to dividends which is estimated to the U.S. in the Middle East, as well give investors $364 billion dollars March 21, Greece: Anarchists Go On as security alerts in the region. over 10 years. The public is paying The Offensive Saudi Arabian youth have for the invasion, while elites Athens: The demo started at about 1pm, firebombed two McDonald’s since cash in on it. Make no mistake and it is said that 200,000 participated. November. The bombs caused only about the endless deceptive Anarchists, antiauthoritarians, autonomists, minimal damage but intensified language from Washington. and youth who gathered behind a banner fears among westerners. At least They are not talking about saying “War To The War Of The Bosses” were five American-style fast-food restaurants in starting a war, despite all the rhetorical recruitment pictures were smashed. We consider numbered at 800-1000 persons. In front of the Lebanon, including two Pizza Hut branches and rantings. A war has been raging between the this to be an appropriate response from the French embassy, the police guards’ house and a KFC outlet, have been rocked by bomb attacks U.S. and Iraq for the past 14 years. Since the American public to stop the inevitable invasion. surveillance cameras got smashed. An attack since last May. In Cairo, Egypt, a recent tele- Iraqi military’s retreat from Kuwait, there has Time is running short, and everything possible was also made against the Italian embassy, phoned bomb threat to Citibank led to the been a continuous bombardment on water must be done to stop our government’s race where stones and Molotov cocktails managed evacuation of a large building off the central sanitation systems and factories by U.S. forces. to war. Approximately 230,000 U.S. and to land over the high fence. The Portuguese square where the offices of several foreign Operation Desert Fox went completely British troops are now surrounding Iraq and embassy got some stones too. After that, there companies are located, such as Microsoft and unnoticed as the U.S. corporate media offered are prepared to unleash a full-scale assault was a strike against the Ministry of Internal Hewlett-Packard Co. the public sensational stories about the OJ and invasion of Iraqi soil. It is certain that many Affairs with Molotov cocktails and stones. In young American and British troops will die in Simpson trial. Washington is not starting a FRANKFURT, Germany - Anti-war demonstrators front of “Evagelismos” hospital, a group of the fighting. There is also a great chance of war. Washington is starting an invasion. They clashed with police outside the U.S. consulate demonstrators attacked the riot cops with American civilian casualties. An invasion of Iraq are trying to mobilize the American public to in Hamburg and peace rallies emptied schools Molotov cocktails and other objects. will help escalate conditions that will lead to support the escalation of aggressive military across Italy in a fresh swell of protests against Somewhere around Hilton hotel, the black more violent attacks similar to those of policies. There was never any regard from the war in Iraq. Hamburg police turned water bloc split in small groups, marching towards September 11th. By bombing Iraq, there will Washington for international democracy. In cannons on protesters, including middle and the U.S. embassy among the rest of the demo. also be a great number of Iraqi casualties. Already, November, MSNBC, subsidiary of General high school students, outside the U.S. consulate The U.S. embassy was the main target for the UNICEF has estimated that 1.7 million Iraqis Electric (the second largest contractor to the in the northern port city. Police said a group of biggest part of the demonstrators. During all have died as direct result of imposed sanctions. Pentagon), announced that the Pentagon Palestinians and Kurds armed with wooden sticks, the hours that the demo was taking place, Inhumane and manipulative steps have already had approved invasion plans. At the beginning stones and bottles joined about 8,000 students people, especially the youth, who were passing been taken against the Iraqi people by of December, senior officials in the who had been protesting peacefully outside of in front of the building, were throwing rotten Washington in the months during the build up. White House said that “war is inevitable.” the building, and then began attacking pigs. oranges, eggs, red paint and stones at them. GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 10 Summer ‘03 The vans and the cops were covered with March 26, Spain: Anti-War Riots paint and eggs! On the street next to the Spread Across Country embassy a bank was set on fire. In the street ZERO WAR – TOTAL LIBERATION Tens of thousands of students protested ...continued from page 9 between the Hall and the embassy there were across Spain, demanding the government’s If the move to militarization works to massive clashes between demonstrators resignation and calling for a halt to the U.S.- secure the rule of Capital, by subjecting the against cops. Many people participated in the led war on Iraq. Pockets of militant protesters fighting because they were enraged about the world to a global war machine and by throwing stones and bottles clashed with war, the riot police and the suffocating teargas. further atomizing personal relationships, we baton-wielding riot police in Madrid, Barcelona Protestors were using everything they could can fight back by both monkey-wrenching and Zaragoza. In Barcelona, masked demon- find to fight the cops: wooden sticks, bottles, nodes of the machinery and simultaneously strators smashed the windows of a McDonald’s and stones taken from the pavements, rotten beginning to re/form a community of fast-food restaurant and a department store. fruit, and Molotov cocktails. After many objects struggle. To me the task then is to begin to were thrown at them, the cops started running March 26, Italy: US Military Vehicles pick our own battles, select sites of military back and were saved from a general retreat Firebombed In Anti-War Protest power and attack them in ways that only when other squads came from inside the both work to halt their operation and Italian police say at least two vehicles park to support them. More clashes followed, simultaneously bring new ways of living belonging to American military personnel have with groups of demonstrators throwing stones been firebombed near U.S. bases in northern into being. These acts in themselves may from all directions at the police. A retreating Italy. Authorities say the cars, with license not be enough, but in concert with other group of about 100 people reached the War plates identifying them as belonging to Allied autonomous activities they may just begin Museum and set fire to some military airplanes Forces Italy, were set on fire. No one was to open the door to rebellions that can dig exposed in the yard of the Museum, and injured. The vehicles were parked on the street the grave for Empire. afterwards attacked the building that houses about one kilometer from the U.S. base at the State Radio-Television (ERT). Vicenza. The base is home to the Southern Post-script Other March 21 Actions: European Task Force. A third vehicle was As the cameras turn away from the rubble In Portland, Oregon, protesters smashed in torched near the U.S. airbase at Aviano. of Baghdad the official voices of adjudication have declared the war a “victory”. Those on three windows at a McDonald’s, set flags on Authorities say they believe the attacks were the Right triumphantly proclaim the vindication of the U.S. Administration and laud the fire and sprayed graffiti on a sign at a Shell protests against the U.S.-led war in Iraq. It’s gas station. More than 100 people were clear from this level of resistance that fear has prospects for freedom and democracy. Those on the Left rub their hands and worry that arrested. “I like the idea of shutting down begun to enter into the heart of capitalism, this victory signals the return of imperialism and a defeat for freedom and democracy. commerce and the city to counteract Bush’s which is not the unassailable Moloch that its Both sides only see the clash as one between two nations states and equate victory with the economic motives for this war,” one young techno-bureaucrats pretend. The historical Coalition’s triumph over the Baathists. But this war was not about a clash between two demonstrator told the press. moment is serious; the social war paws the states as much as it was about securing the entire global order of states. There was no doubt ground and the agents of repression seek to that the Coalition’s armed forces were going to easily smash the Iraqi army. The entire war In Chicago, Illinois, several thousand marchers pursue and exterminate all rebels. We need was about securing the continuing reign of global capital in a time where the entire order is snarled afternoon rush-hour traffic along the city’s to keep hammering away at the power structure increasing divided and bankrupt. main arteries, repeatedly breaking through lines while being careful to avoid the snares of If there was a central goal, it was the unleashing of “shock and awe” (militarily and of police on horseback or in riot gear. hierarchy, bureaucratization and the special- ideologically) to terrorize the global multitude and thus re-enforce our obedience. Did it ization of roles within our own movement. work? Just like the last Gulf War, huge sections of the Iraq army deserted. In other words March 23, Kuwait: Soldier Held After Because the revolutionary movement must they refused the basic lie of nation states: that we should lay down our lives for them. If Grenade Attack know how to overcome the cage of spectacular Camp New Jersey: rot imposed by power, in anything, this act of mass defiance rather than signaling the end of rebellion amongst the Thirteen soldiers from order to encourage oil proletariat is testament to their continuing ungovernability and self-organisation. the 101st Airborne widespread conflict Waves of mass defiance also swept the globe. Whilst often the mass rallies were liberal Division were wounded everywhere in daily life in tone and passive in nature, increasingly large sections of them challenged the authority by a hand grenade that where reification smothers of both the state and the official organizers. In Sydney, Australia, student anti-war rallies was thrown into the 1st revolt. Actions like these defied their Leninist marshals and were transformed into combinations of roving festivals Brigade technical can be carried out by and direct confrontations with the police. Young people of mainly Islamic and Middle- operations center at almost anyone, anony- Eastern backgrounds rebelled against the extra policing that they had subjected them to Camp Pennsylvania in mously and autonomously, and exhibited a great willingness to directly fight the state. At the demonstrations in Canberra, central Kuwait. A U.S. and help to keep our speakers were heckled, people refused to follow the established march roots and eventual soldier assigned to the struggle leaderless. a group marched on parliament house confronting the police there. Graffiti and other forms brigade is in custody. of low level property damage (include writing “NO WAR” in gigantic letters on the Sydney According to preliminary Anti-War Hacking Opera House) are widespread. So much so the in Wollongong, the Returned Services League reports, the attack Rises Sharply has had to organize vigilante groups to protect war memorials. occurred at 1:21 am More than 20,000 These are just examples of a global rebellion. It is this rebellion that was so worrying and involved a grenade websites have been Chirac and Schroeder. Europe’s original “opposition” to the war was not based on any and some gunfire. hacked since the war on Three soldiers were commitment to political liberalism, but rather was an attempt to marshal old liberal and Iraq began, according to evacuated to the 86th social democratic ideologies to fend off revolt. What the French state realized is still plain one security firm. UK Combat Support Hospital to see (if you look through the digital-smoke of the simulacrum): that the global order of security firm F-Secure has at Udairi in northern capital can not create a harmonious mode of operation in the face of continuing revolt. The seen a dramatic rise in Kuwait and seven were so-called victory has not stopped this revolt. If anything it has deepened it further by chipping the number of hack evacuated to the 47th away the consensus and compliance that civilization requires for normal operation. The attacks since the conflict Combat Support Hospital response to this will be of course be more militarisation: more surveillance, more police, started. In the first few in Southern Kuwait. more violence, more terror. So much so that protesters attempting to interfere with the days of the conflict there Details of the attack on running of a detention center in the South Australian desert faced a raid by police armed was a flurry of attempts to access vulnerabilities the operations center, which is in a closely with machine guns. This was the first time in recent memory that this has happened. on websites such as that of the U.S. Navy. confined tent and usually manned by a couple Defacements from pro-Islamic hacking groups Will increased direct state repression and a neo-conservative political culture of unfreedom dozen staff officers, were sketchy. suggested that it was the beginning of a secure a future for the cyber-industrial civilization of Capital? The confusion we are faced March 25, Ecuador: Grenade Attack new era of cyber hacking. Now it seems that with is the weave of oppression and resistance. We refuse the rule of Capital, but we are inside Capital and in many ways it is in us; thus living resistance to civilization is a blur of On British Consulate the hackers are getting closer to sensitive targets with both the White House and Number hope and despair. However, if anything A grenade was thrown at Britain’s honorary 10 websites suffering attacks according to the war shows that capitalism cannot consulate. The honorary consul in Guayaquil, F-Secure. “More and more people are joining reach its own totalitarian fantasies: Colin Armstrong, told local television station in the fray,” said General Manager of F-Secure, often attempts to govern work to strip Ecuavisa he thought the attack could be a Jason Holloway. “The majority of the messages away at the governmentality of protest against the war in Iraq. No one was are still anti-war,” he added. Qatar-based the people. New waves of hurt in the attack, and the grenade did little TV station Al-Jazeera has reported that a damage. In what appears to be another proletarianisation, of social control denial-of-service attack could have been anti-war protest in Lebanon, a small explosion may defeat struggles here and there, conducted on its website. The attack has not damaged the outer wall of the British Council but they move on, grow and erupt been confirmed and could just be due to a building. The explosion in Ecuador shattered elsewhere. Pertinent question remain, large weight of traffic. Al-Jazeera has now windows on the ground floor of the building. liberation may not be inevitable. launched an English-language version of its Police General Edgar Vaca told the Associated However for all the bluster it seems website which has also suffered outages. This Press news agency that a group called the at this point that even in the face of conflict has seen a new breed of hacktivist, in People’s Revolutionary Militias had claimed smart bombs, embedded journalists the shape of pro-peace campaigners who have responsibility for the attack in an e-mail. The been joining pro-Islamic hackers and pro- and Saving Private Lynch, the e-mail condemned the United States and Britain American groups in expressing their grievances multitude will not be terrorized. for attacking Iraq. Since August, the group has online. Political tensions around the globe are 1 exploded three small bombs, including one in Seppo is a WWII era piece of rhyming slang for often mirrored in cyberspace. Increased tensions Americans. Yanks = Septic Tanks = Seppos. the capital, Quito. In prior attacks, the group 2 in the Middle East and between Pakistan and Zerzan, J. “Origins and Meaning of WWI” in has scattered leaflets urging Ecuadorians not Elements of Refusal. Columbia Missouri, C.A.L. India have all been used by so-called to vote in elections last year and later criticizing Press 1999 pp 145-165. hacktivists to launch web defacements and 3 Hardt M. & Negri A. Empire. Cambridge President Lucio Gutierrez for launching denial of service attacks. Three Iraq war-related Mass., Harvard University Press, 2001 p23-24. economic austerity measures. Security sources computer viruses, including the Ganda worm, in Beirut said an unknown assailant threw a For more analysis on the war-machine, and ideas have also been spotted by F-Secure, although stick of dynamite at Britain’s cultural center on resistance to it, send $1 to Green Anarchy the damage done by these has been limited. for a short pamplet entitled, after the office closed for the night. “ ” ...continued on next page the war machine continues

Summer ‘03 page 11 GREEN ANARCHY #13 April 1, Washington: Recruitment “It’s frustrating. They’re like little gnats that other marchers tried to break through a riot Center Attacked you can’t get away from,” said Captain James police cordon sealing off the northern end of McGahey, a company commander of the 101st Syntagma Square in an attempt to stop Bellingham: The following communiqué was Airborne Division who says almost every one demonstrators from approaching Zappeion MMoreore ActionsActions released anonymously over the internet: On the of the patrols he sends out in the northern city Hall, where visiting EU politicians were night that the dictator of the USA escalated its war of Mosul gets stoned. assembled. Demonstrators were angry about the Against the War against the citizenry of Iraq, an anonymous indi- presence, in the Greek capital, of the premiers vidual threw a rock through the front plate glass RAINING STONES of Britain and Spain, who backed the U.S.-led MachineMachine door of the military recruitment center in Bellingham, In one typical incident, a group of soldiers attack on Iraq. The march moved on towards the WA. No humans or animals were hurt in this attack. on foot patrol attracted an ever-increasing U.S. Embassy, but at several points along the The U.S. military has waged continuous wars on ...continued from last page posse of children as they moved past a route anarchists attacked police, who responded ...continued from last page the peoples of this world for long enough. local fire station and on through a rough with more tear gas. Eight pigs, one journalist Everything must be done to stop Leviathan. March 27, Mob storms KFC as anti-war neighborhood of Mosul. and a cameraman were injured during the riots By the time they protests sweep country April 10, Oregon: as anarchist insurgents (many of whom wore gas reached a school masks to handle the copious amounts of tear Tripoli: At least ten people were injured Marine’s Flag Burned building, at least 200 gas the pigs were dishing out) threw petrol following clashes between Internal Security Eugene: After an energetic children and a small bombs, smashed bank and shop windows and Forces (ISF) and demonstrators who tried to storm march through town, the group of adults were burned down bus stops. Eighty-four suspects a KFC restaurant. In Tripoli and other major cities U.S. flag was taken down around them, and the were arrested following the rioting; many face across the country, students from both public and from in front of the Marine stones came raining in criminal charges of causing explosions and private schools and universities left their classes Reserve Building and from about a dozen of possession of explosives, as well as the around noon to participate in demonstrations burned, much to the horror the older kids. misdemeanors of damaging foreign property, against the war in Iraq - more than 40,000 of a few patriotic assholes. “They were throwing resisting arrest and “breach of the peace”. That participated in Tripoli, converging from different them like they were night, arsonists poured petrol over a police jeep destinations. A couple of hundred participants April 26, Iraq: Stone- pitching a baseball,” and set it on fire in the southern suburb of left the demonstration and marched toward a throwing children said Sgt John McLean, Glyfada, severely damaging the vehicle. KFC outlet on the Bahsas boulevard and started who was hit on the throwing stones at it. ISF personnel intervened, put troops on edge helmet, in the back April 23, Vancouver: Canadian Armed Hooded shooting in the air to disperse the crowd. MOSUL - The love affair and on the heel. Forces Recruitment Center Attacked between U.S. troops and youths The troops pulled “ACT 1 March 28, Italy: Ford Cars Torched In Iraqi children is turning threw petrol bombs away and took up a We, the Anti-PROPERTY committee of sour. As the invading Protest Against The War and stones defensive position Vancouver claim the responsibility of the several troops pushed north Rome: A dozen cars at a Ford dealership on at riot pigs but even then the broken windows at the Canadian armed force towards Baghdad in the the outskirts of the city were set on fire, and a in Athens. children and adults recruiting center on Georgia Street (1070 West first weeks of the war, it banner reading “Sabotage the imperialist war” only dispersed when Georgia St.) , Vancouver. was always the children in every town that came was hung on the gate of the lot. a warning shot was fired over their heads. Canadian troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan! out first to smile, wave, give the thumbs-up and The problem is not confined to Mosul. Crowds No to sending RCMP or Canadian troops to Iraq. shout the same greeting: “Good, good, good!” March 29, Greece: Greeks Continue of 250-300 Iraqi teenagers hurled stones at End the occupation of Iraq! Happy to see a friendly face, the soldiers To Up The Ante U.S. Marines patrolling the holy city of Najaf Who’s next?” Athens: Some 15,000 demonstrators chanting waved back and many handed out candies in southern Iraq. In many other Iraqi towns from their field rations. “we’ll stop the war” marched to the American and cities, there were similar activities. “ embassy in central Athens. Protesters splashed But more and more of the encounters ending Decolonization is always red paint on the road outside the embassy with some children, usually the older ones in April 16, Greece: Petrol Bombs And a violent phenomenon building and onto the front windows of a their early teens, hurling stones at the soldiers. Tear Gas Punctuate Anti-War March ...The naked truth of It can be a Catch-22 situation for the troops. McDonalds restaurant. Earlier that day, another An anti-war protest in police-thronged central decolonization evokes If they let the children swarm around them, they McDonalds restaurant was damaged in a grenade Athens exploded into extensive rioting as for us searing bullets expose themselves to possible attack from attack after closing hours in an Athens suburb. hooded youths threw petrol bombs and stones and bloodstained knives adults who can use the cover to get close and No one was hurt and there was no immediate at riot police forces and vandalized shops and ” throw in a hand grenade. which emanate from it. claim of responsibility. Authorities have tightened banks. As hooded anarchists started throwing But if they push them back, it hurts their security at potential targets in the Greek capital Molotov cocktails and stones at the cops who - Frantz Fanon, The efforts to win over the civilian population, and after a spate of arson attacks against U.S. banks were monitoring the demonstration Wretched of the Earth can spark the stone throwing. and other businesses since the war began. (prompting a massive tear gas barrage), OnOnOnOn TheTheTheThe DecompositionDecompositionDecompositionDecomposition ofofofof OurOurOurOur Enemies!Enemies!Enemies!Enemies! Unleashed Passions, The Delirious Taste of Revenge, and Further Symptoms of State Meltdown April 26, Kenya: Students Riot and Take Pig Hostage school and ransacked it, smashing windows before setting Every Social Conflict is the arena for three mutually University of Nairobi students went on the rampage, stoning it alight, highlighting growing tensions over the draconian antagonistic forces: the Establishment, the opposition vehicles and destroying property. They were protesting against measures China is taking to bring SARS under control. which seeks to overthrow the existing Order and a decision by their Vice “They went to the school and burned the school. It can’t be replace it with one of its own, and the tendency Chancellor to send home used any longer,” a local “official” said. “Then they went to towards increased Social Entropy, all students pursuing a de- the local education office and smashed it to pieces. Then which all Social Conflict engenders, gree in Nursing. Police they went to the town government office and smashed the and which, in this context, may be said one of their col- whole building, breaking windows, removing doors and thought of as the force of Chaos.” leagues sent to help throwing them out of the windows. “They broke in and smashed everything, overturned vehicles. All facilities are - Gregor Markowitz, The Theory quell the rioting was out of use now.” of Social Entropy missing and they suspected the students The official said armed police and anti-riot forces arrived had abducted him. The but by that time the villagers had run away. April 1, Italy: Bomb Placed Out- angry students threat- “Today it is okay but at that time the situation was very side IBM Headquarters ened to transform the serious,” said the official, who estimated the crowd was 2,000-strong but that only a core of 30 to 40 people took Rome—The Italian police allege that students’ union into a political party if the part in the destruction. they disabled a crude bomb placed outside “The rest cheered them on,” he said. Residents showed the Italian headquarters of IBM in the ministry did not increase their loans. no remorse, voicing outrage that the government claimed to northern city of Bologna. The device, which be trying to stop SARS spreading to the countryside, but at police said contained an unidentified black April 19, Italy: the same time wanted to send urban suspect cases to their powder and a fuse, had apparently been township. timed to explode outside the American Golden Arches Computer Company during the previous Go Up In Flames! May 2-9, Mediterranean Europe: Various Acts night. “It was put there to do harm,” said Sargegna Island—During the night a of Sabotage Romano Argerio, the pig chief of Bologna. bomb exploded inside a McDonalds’ restaurant in the On May 2nd, a large group of North African immigrants town of Oristano. April 7, Oregon: Bomb Threat - Courthouse Evacuated destroyed the dining room of the San Foca detention center Grants Pass—The Josephine County Courthouse was evacuated in Leece, Italy, to protest the imminent notification of Chinese Villagers Riot Over Plan for SARS deportation orders. The rebels threw pots and chairs at in the morning after a man phoned the Circuit Court and said Quarantine Center there was a bomb inside the building. The unidentified caller police and military officers and 8 pigs ended up in the hospital. Chagugang, China - Some 2,000 villagers torched a school th announced during the 10:18 a.m. phone call that a bomb On May 8 , a cellphone tower in Casciana Terme, Italy, building earmarked as a SARS quarantine center and would go off “in 45 minutes.” County Commissioner Harold was set on fire. ransacked government offices in China’s first reported th Haugen said it was the second time this year the courthouse On May 9 , 2 automatic tellers of the Caja Madrid Bank and instance of social unrest related to SARS. The mayhem in had to be evacuated because of a bomb threat. A similar one teller of the Zaragoza Bank were attacked in Barcelona, Chagugang town, a rural settlement 90 minutes southeast incident also occurred in January. A deputy pig investigating Spain. The windows of one branch of the BBUA bank were of Beijing, happened Sunday night after the government in the incident said that the receptionist who took the phone smashed. Some telephone booths were also damaged. nearby Tinajin city decided to convert a school into an isolation call when the threat was made said the caller’s voice was facility for urban people suspected of having contact with Send us your local symptoms of state meltdown, similar to that of a man who phoned earlier that morning and Send us your local symptoms of state meltdown, SARS patients. About 2,000 angry residents marched to the asked to have his sentencing date rescheduled. or anything else you find in the news!

GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 12 Summer ‘03 arms manufacturers, banks and multinationals through downtown for several hours. On a — on various Internet sites. Two years ago, in street near the embassy, they threw rocks at the most extreme May Day violence in Britain several passing vehicles belonging to the For How Much Longer Will of recent times, masked protesters rioted 5,000-strong international peacekeeping force in London, defacing the Cenotaph war that patrols the city, shattering windows memorial, trashing a shop and burning cars. in at least two of them. One “peacekeeper” We Tolerate Mass Murder? was treated at a hospital for slight wounds and then re- leased, said Lt. Col. Paul Anarchist, Anti-Capitalist, and Anti-Imperialist Kolken, a Dutch spokesman for the multinational force. Battles From All Over This War-Torn Planet “Why are Americans killing us inside our home, inside Afghanistan?” said Gul “The Revolution which is beginning MAY 1: World Marks May Day, Ahmad, a 20-year-old taking will call in question not only Violence Flares in Berlin part in the protest. As stones capitalist society but industrial Berlin - German riot police clashed with were lobbed at the U.S. society. The consumer society is bound rock-throwing demonstrators in Berlin and embassy’s large main gate, violence was expected in other European U.S. Marines stood in a for a violent death. Social alienation capitals at rallies marking the May Day fenced guard tower, speak- must vanish from history. We are holiday. Hundreds of thousands of workers ing into walkie-talkies. inventing a new and original world. and protesters took part in largely peaceful Afghan officials have called May Day rallies round the world, though the shootout a mistake, Imagination is seizing power.” scuffles were reported and some demon- saying Afghan soldiers at - Poster from the Sorbonne, Paris, May 1968 strations on the public holiday included a military intelligence criticism of the U.S.-led war on Iraq. Berlin compound were loading April 16, 2003: Banks Burn In police were out in force, with some 7,500 or unloading weapons from Nighttime Attack! on city streets braced for battles with a vehicle across the street anarchists after 27 police officers and an from the embassy when U.S. Buenos Aires, Argentina - During the night unknown number of assailants and guards believed they were the armored glass windows of a branch of the bystanders were injured in three hours of about to come under attack Banco Francés were cracked and the bank was clashes overnight. The violence erupted and opened fire. Two Afghans attacked with flammable devices. The fire from without warning toward the end of a also were wounded. Interna- the hall entrance destroyed the automatic peaceful protest by about 4,000 people in tional peacekeepers have teller of the bank. For more information check the Mauerpark, in the Prenzlauer Berg given another version of out: www.guerrasociale.org district where the Berlin Wall stood. events, saying Afghan A group of 200 anarchists hurled troops may have fired on a April 29: Striking Nigerian Workers bottles and rocks and shot fireworks at passing car — perhaps Take Hostages police, who charged the group, arresting 97 because it failed to stop at a checkpoint. The Switzerland - On May Day, Police in Berne Lagos, Nigeria - Striking Nigerian oil workers of them. Violence in the area lasted three Afghan soldiers’ bullets were fired toward the used water cannon to keep some 300 demon- have taken about 100 foreign workers hostage hours, with street barricades set ablaze and U.S. Marine guards, who mistook it for an strators from entering a government-controlled on several offshore oil installations, including some shop windows smashed. attack and returned fire, they said. The weapons company. The protesters were calling 21 Americans. The strikers have been holding The German capital has been marred by May following day, Afghan and U.S. authorities for a ban on arms exports from neutral Switzerland. 97 foreign workers, including 35 Britons, aboard Day clashes between anarchists and police said the shootout would not undermine four offshore drilling rigs owned by Houston- every year since 1987. Last year rampaging relations between the two countries. There based Transocean since April 19. The events youths caused extensive damage, setting May 24, Afghans Protest Shootings have been few signs of serious tension occurred in a remote area off the West African luxury cars and bus shelters on fire. At US Embassy between the United States and its Afghan nation’s coastline. Fighting in March shut down In London, radical anti-capitalist activists Kabul - Angry Afghan demonstrators allies since American forces were deployed nearly 40 percent of Nigeria’s production of 2.2 had a hit list of more than 50 “companies of hurled stones at the U.S. Embassy to protest in the country after ousting the Taliban million barrels a day. Nigeria is one of the mass destruction” in their sights in protests the shooting deaths of three Afghan soldiers regime in 2001. America is the primary world’s largest oil exporters and the fifth that police feared could turn violent. by U.S. Marines outside the heavily guarded military backer of President Hamid Karzai’s largest producer of U.S. oil imports. Anarchist groups published the names and compound. Carrying banners saying, “Death government. About 11,500 coalition soldiers, addresses of the establish- to America, Death to (President Hamid) including 8,500 Americans, are in the country May 20, Arizona: School Property Trashed ments — oil companies, Karzai,” about 80 protesters marched to preserve the Karzai government. Vandals slashed the tires on all but seven of the 59 buses owned by Apache Junction Unified Schools and A specter has returned to roam the Earth. After endless In such a scenario, where all human relations, social glued shut keyholes on a handful of classroom doorknobs years of a social peace composed of exploitation, activities, and the times and spaces of life are oppressively at the high school in the early morning. Staff members alienation, misery and suffering, the rage of the oppressed contaminated by separation and isolation, any opposition made the first discovery around 5 a.m. at the district returns at last to the streets to serve the death sentence to that is not moved by a hostility against the industrial way transportation yard. One or both tires on the front ends a social organization incompatible with humankind and the of life will only be a contribution to Capital, helping to keep of 52 buses were flattened. Special education and planet. The triumphalism that accompanied the spectacle it up to date. The supposed autonomy of a civil society that kindergarten buses were left intact. Dozens of maintenance of mercantile abundance at its dawn is finished, and all that would control the choices of power, guarantee a greater workers scrambled to repair tires with help from city-and is left is a world that is going to the dogs on all fronts, “democracy” and impose rules, laws and precautions, is county-loaned generators and compressors. The first tier with a caste of functionaries to govern its agony. They the ultimate ideological lie formulated to “democratically” of buses was on the road 30 to 45 minutes behind schedule. don’t tell us that we are in the best of all possible worlds legitimate an ever The second tier was about 10 minutes late. About 79 anymore—because that would be ridiculous—but The Anarchists Song: greater artificialization percent of the district’s 5,500 students are bused to simply that no one else is now capable of running such of life. For too long have —to all men of power school. About “six or seven” classroom doors were “crazy a battered planet. After having destroyed every we sacrificed our glued” at Apache Junction High School. The keyholes form of community and sterilized all human we are kept in poverty and ignorance pleasure for the sake were repaired before students arrived on campus. The relationships, after having expropriated all of our by the projection of your fear, of Production and Devel- school is planning to beef up security for the final two awareness and know-how, after having transformed of your greed for power. opment. Those who days of the school year. us into appendages of an infernal and incomprehensible We are kept in terror and confusion have a vested interest in maintaining this technological apparatus that are incapable of interacting By your protection racket politics, “Let me state it in terms you can understand. with nature, our own bodies and other individuals of arrangement appear to The natural tendency in the physical realm is our species, they tell us that all that remains to us at By your nursery rhyme propaganda. wield a great power toward ever-increasing randomness or disorder, this point is to trust our fate and the fate of the planet But slowly, like a crystal forming, over us, yet this what we call Chaos or entropy. So too, in the to technology (that is, to Capital) to resolve an Self-awareness liberates our minds, appearance is but realm of human culture. To locally and temporarily emergency that we can neither understand nor, much less, Cell by cell, person by person, cheap cinematography. It is you and I who reverse the trend towards entropy in the physical confront. This is what is meant by the affirmation that Until we are truly free, “History is finished”, which really means nothing more have maintained this realm requires energy. And so too in human societies Until we are truly human beings, — Social Energy. The more Ordered, thus unnatural than that we must bow our heads and obey; otherwise, arrangement, mainly Separate yet united in mutual trust; and anti-entropic, a society, the more Social the truncheon falls. by performing our appointed tasks on a Energy is required to maintain the unnatural Time and time again, the general crisis of existence Your awkward puppets shall dance no more, regular, daily basis. It is condition. And how is this Social Energy to be is passed off as crises of particular sectors, disconnected And you, the puppet masters will vanish you and I who can do obtained? Why, by so ordering the society to from the totality of industrial production and its basic Into the shadows of our fulfilled dream. away with such contradictions. The unavoidable consequences of a mode produce it! Which, as you can see, requires more arrangements through of production that is structurally polluting, poisonous and —Fange Order in return. Which creates a demand for more daily, creative rebellion. productive of only imbalances are made to pass for Social Energy, and so forth, in a geometric “Cer ta inl y, it is still possible to go along the road of the progression that spirals as long as the society temporary incidents caused by poor management that demand attempts to achieve Order. You see the paradox, corrective interventions by the State. It is needless to say that, organization of synthesis, of propaganda, anarchist educationism do you not? The more Ordered a society since such “adjustments” are themselves the harbingers of and debate – as we are doing just now of course – because… this is a becomes, the more Ordered it must become to new calamities, they will render further technological-beuracratic question of a project in tendency, of attempting to unders ta nd “remedies” necessary, which becomes a business called maintain its original Order, requiring still more “reconstruction”, “regulation”, and “reclamation”. Not being something about a capitalist project which is in development Social Energy, and never really catching up. Thus able to produce anything good, capitalism reproduces itself and prepare ourselves from this moment on to transform irrational a society can tolerate less and less randomness by living off its trash (the material as well as the ideological situations of riot into an insurrectional and revolutionary reality.” as it grows ever more Ordered.” trash) and involving everyone in sharing its disastrous - Alfredo M. Bonanno, - Gregor Markowitz, The Theory of Social Entropy responsibility. Anarchism and Insurrectional Project

Summer ‘03 page 13 GREEN ANARCHY #13 DecodingDecoding thethe ApocalypseApocalypse ofof thethe MilitantMilitant GreekGreek LeftLeft by the Green Anarchy Collective

Diplomatic Life Behind Bulletproof Glass For nearly three decades the price tag for security in Athens was the highest of any U.S. diplomatic community in the world, he apparent dismantling of the November 17 (N17) Alexandros Yotopoulos, the 63-year-old “renegade” communist T due to the unpredictable, surprise attacks of groups like N17 movement (and now, the recent ELA busts) have sparked one – whom the Greek state describes as the “motor” that kept and the ELA. At one point, the reward for information leading of the official Left’s periodic confrontations with its deepest November 17 going – is steadfastly disavowing any connection to the arrest of N17 members was fattened to more than $9 political uncertainty; the relevance of their program, analysis with the N17 foot soldiers, and claims he is being targeted by million ($5 million of which was pledged by the U.S., who and outdated organizational forms to a a vindictive U.S. State Department were handing out a flier describing the bounty with every visa world that has already witnessed the who have never forgotten his anti- issued). Armed leftist groups were the backdrop against which dreary, oppressive reality of communism Junta activities in the early 1970’s. ordinary Greek citizens carried out their affairs, but to fully and all its offshoots. Fourteen years Yotopoulos is being fingered by understand the political climate that helped facilitate the after the Berlin Wall crumbled into tourist Greek authorities as the “cultured proliferation of so many urban guerrillas, we need to take a souvenirs, few marxist-leninists have intellectual” who penned N17’s closer look at the Greek leftist milieu. faith in the “dialectically-ordained” highly informed proclamations (if this During the military dictatorship in Greece, thousands of anti- revolution that will usher in a classless, is true, it may well explain why the Junta leftists fled to Paris, which became the unofficial base communist society. Instead, disillusioned group elected to send its manifesto to for resistance activities. The uprising against the U.S.-backed by the state-communist dystopias, many French existentialist philosopher Jean Junta gave birth to the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement leftists—still intent on “managing” other Paul Sartre in 1977- two years after it (PASOK), the political party which has governed Greece for people’s lives—have shifted their focus first appeared in France’s left-wing 18 of the past 21 years, and also provided the recruitment towards more reformist goals, like paper, Liberation). But Mary Bossi, reservoir for groups like N17 and ELA who didn’t feel the socialism. Since most thoughtful people who has spent 20 years “studying struggle had ended with the establishment of a U.S.-influenced recognize that communism and capitalism terrorism” in the service of the Greek “puppet democracy”. Because of their common ideological are the same dismal story with a different government, has her doubts about roots with N17, PASOK has long been dogged by allegations face, the Left (especially here in the US) Yotopoulos and believes that the of shielding the group from prosecution. And indeed, as the has been forced to modify its rhetoric, and groups’ dismantling is far from over. year passed, it does appear that a complex web of suspicious to engage in anti-authoritarian posturing, “The only thing Yotopoulos convinces characters and political interests was established around N17 in a desperate attempt to keep up with the me of is that he wrote proclamations and ELA, acting to protect them and to obstruct investigations. times and keep their membership-starved Diagram of an N17 Assassination on demand, as a hired hand. They At this point it is fairly well established that ELA had links organizations alive. gave him the work to do,” says Bossi, with the East German secret police (the Stasi), who had a well- In Greece, nothing exposes the bankruptcy and irrelevance suggesting that Yotopoulos may have just been an N17 em- documented track record of financing any group whose activities of the Left more than its fainthearted, pathetic attempts to ployee. Bossi herself was honored with a visit in 1997 by N17 contributed to the “destabilization of the western democracies”. distance itself from the N17 and ELA urban guerrillas, groups at her doorstep, when they left a “calling card” - 1.5 kilos The extent of Stasi influence on ELA can only be guessed at, who clearly had a leftist interpretation of the world and who of dynamite - at her home. but it does appear that the East German infiltration of the Greek undeniably emerged from the radical left milieu. These arrests At the opening of the N17 trials (which are expected to last at government expanded after 1981 with Stasi agents forming constituted an existential crisis for the Greek Left, which tried least five months) Yotopoulos vociferously denounced the para-state links with the Greek secret service. It was also during to explain it all away as a state-orchestrated campaign to proceedings, stating that “I reject the charges, of course. I this period that N17 and ELA activity was at its peak. attack the Left and curtail their civil liberties! This is because am here because this is what the Americans and their And amidst all these cloak-and-dagger conspiracies and the Left wants to believe that the system still conspires against collaborators in the government, who hate everything Greek, labyrinthine political games were genuinely anarchist it, for that is the ultimate proof that it is still seen as a threat to want. I come from a well-known left-wing family. I fought elements, like Christos Tsoutsouvis, who received his initial the system. But the Left isn’t seen as a threat to anything in dynamically against the Junta and was convicted of this by arms and explosives training with ELA, before breaking off Greece; it was the invisible assassins and “popular avengers” a military court. I placed a bomb in the American embassy from “Anti-State Struggle” (a group whose name speaks for of N17 that the government wanted to neutralize, because their during the dictatorship. I did not cash in on my anti- itself). In the case of N17, we seem to be dealing with a group actions and proclamations reflected the widespread anti- dictatorship and anti-American activity and did not join any who might have had good intelligence contacts within the Greek Americanism that has existed in Greece since the fall of the party, I did not collaborate. The indictment is a cheap Anglo- establishment but who also had anti-state leanings and acted military dictatorship in 1974, and their communiqués contained American fabrication.” autonomously from the official Greek left. As Ioannis Rahiotis, more or less what most people said in private conversation. The 19 N17 suspects face a total of 2,000 counts of murder, the lawyer representing Alexandros Yotopoulos, said at the When the N17 arrests began in 2002, and the Left failed to step bombing and bank robbery, among other charges. Eleven of opening of the N17 trials, “N17 represented the ‘aggressive forward and extend solidarity (to individuals who sprang from the accused, including Yotopoulos, face life sentences. Intelligence left’. Before N17, the left maintained a defensive role. N17 is their own ranks), it fell upon the Greek anarchist movement to agencies are still hunting for other N17 founders, believed to the quarry that decided to turn hunter… Its activity is clearly rally in support of the captured anti-capitalist guerrillas. Here at be a small group of 3-5 and known as “the grandfathers of political. Call it a crime, but a political crime.” Green Anarchy, we understood the significance of the events that N17”. Finding them may prove to be impossible. “They must were unfolding in Greece and tried our best to provide our readers look in circles of 70’s revolutionaries, which includes much with accurate updates on this massive government clampdown. of Greece’s political elite,” said Giorgos Petsos, a former Pasok Inside the Shadow Wars: Now, however, with the trials of the N17 suspects in full swing, minister of public order and industry, who survived an N17 In October of 2002, Green Anarchy received an English we feel its important to take a closer look at the actual politics of assassination attempt in 1989. Petsos claims that the translation of a prison interview with Alexandros Yotopoulos, the N17 movement, in light of recent revelations. assassination attempt against him was dictated by “political that originally appeared in the Greek newspaper, Larmia Press. interests” other than N17, linking the attempt with the then- How a written interview was smuggled out of a high-security What Exactly Where the Political pending corruption trial of Pasok founder and former Prime prison is not known, but the state, humiliated and outraged Minister, Andreas Papandreou. “My disappearance would have that Yotopoulos was able to pull something like that off, Objectives of N17? served the political interests of the time. The Papandreou trial imposes a week of isolation on him and bars him from having The first and most basic obstacle to deciphering the politics would not have taken place had I not survived,” says Petsos, visitors. In this fascinating interview (which will be included of the N17 Movement is the lack of reliable information available who also alleges that he was under constant surveillance by in a forthcoming N17 booklet co-published by Green Anarchy on them here in North America and the fact that very few of the EYP (the Greek Secret Service) around the time of the and Agitation Press), Yotopoulos does not admit to his involvement their communiqués have been translated into English. Most of assassination attempt and that they allowed it to occur. “The in N17 but alludes to (without incriminating himself) other the data we currently have at our disposal comes in the form of people who stand accused are either a small part of the sects of N17 that are evading arrest; he allows it to be under- theories that Greek prosecutors have formed since the N17 operational branch of N17 or else something entirely stood that N17 is autonomously organized and that cells take arrests began and can hardly be considered objective or unbiased. separate from the whole structure of terrorism in our action independently of each other; that about 15 other members Compounding the difficulty further is the refusal of the majority of country…The heads are clearly missing.” are free. Yotopoulos also advocates armed struggle in this the N17 suspects to admit to their involvement in the group. interview and states that he does not consider N17 terrorists. GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 14 Summer ‘03 Aside from the Yotopoulos interview, the only direct explanation we have for the underlying politics motivating N17 comes in the form of an interview that one that wasn’t predictable given the current political Savas Xiros - the first N17 arrestee - gave from a prison pay phone. When climate. We are not posting this to arouse feelings of Right-Wing Militia suspicion or finger-pointing. A cautious attitude is asked about the N17 assassinations, Xiros states: “First of all, they were not done out of hate for a certain individual. It is done out of the love for the whole, recommended. Keep your eyes and ears open, but do for the whole that this individual has hurt.” When asked what led him to violence: not over-react. “My conscience took me there. When in front of your eyes horrific things are Ta rgets Anarchists The statements and links follow: taking place and you feel that you scream but are not heard, you must do “BRIEF NOTE: Our Militia Coalition is Growing. something, you can’t stay complacent. I can’t possibly see these things and not A Phoenix-area right-wing militia group has said it is We have now joined with two other Militia Groups. react. I don’t know if what I did was the best way, but that’s what I did and what going to be targetting anti-war protesters, and anarchists Our coalition is at about 82 members strong right now. I’m paying for.” in particular. Violence has been threatened, including We expect that one or two Militia and Pro-American sniper attacks at demos, using rifles and nightvision groups will be joining us. Sham Opposition and Heaps of Leftist Idiocy scopes. Some may know that Arizona has a huge problem WE will be sending out a rally flyer to members. We with racist border, anti-immigrant militias - it looks will list meeting times for Anti-Protestor strategy This spring the three judges involved in the N17 trial decided that the trial like it could be moving into the cities, and it also meetings, the equipment we will need and post locations would not be a “political” one, but strictly criminal. Interestingly enough, in an looks like they have some backing from local capitalists. for surveillance and target marking. interview with NET state television, a spokesperson for Greece’s communist Further, these militias (and this alleges to be a “coalition” The fun will begin soon just be patient. party (KKE) said, “N17 was a group with political aims, and played a political of militias) seem to be making the connection between WE have access to more Night vision equipment as part.” However, she added “For us to say that the crimes were political does not anti-border work and anarchists in particular (a legitimate well as illuminated low light Scopes. We also know where mean that we idealize or exonerate them.” The KKE then went on to condemn N17 connection), and the anti-war stance of anarchists, to get these items at a discounted price...... just for us. “terrorism” and claimed the group was created by the CIA and the Greek S.S. perceived as unpatriotic (rightly so), is being used to Apparently our supplier is in on our crusade with us These types of shifty, spineless denunciations really come as no surprise; in legitimize the attacks. against the Anti-American protestors. They just don’t times of crisis the left has always been characterized by sectarian squabbling The following are statements from this group, want their company name listed.” and back stabbing. But the Greek left’s cowardly abandonment of its own recently posted on their website, some of which were frontline warriors placed many anarchists there in the awkward position of doing re-posted to Arizona Indymedia (including some The following was taken from a press release issued solidarity work for a movement many now feel they have serious misgivings comments from a reporter for a local paper doing a when requested by local media: about. As one Greek anarchist put it: “Every variety of leftism disassociated itself story on it). Shortly after going up, the page that “PRESS RELEASE: Note to Media about Anti- from N17 because it wants to be respectable. So Greek anarchists came to fill this hosted the anti-protester militia has been taken down, American Protestor Militia Organization vacuum of solidarity. By this anarchists supported a left guerrilla group and fought probably because it got so much scrutiny. It’s not clear, Due to the nature of our intentions, we do not feel for rights, which isn’t what we fight for. Leftism deals with such struggles. But but there are allusions to possible connections to that it would be in our best interest to make any statements the left is absent and anarchists felt the need to fill this lack of solidarity”. Other police - they certainly are very concerned about the about our planned activities, the number of people Greek anarchists have expressed severe disappointment over nationalistic statements cops’ welfare (pro-war counter-demonstrators have involved and who they are. I figure this is the information certain N17 prisoners have been making. With all these criticisms being voiced, it been turning up at anti-war rallies here recently, so you are seeking. After spending some time yesterday mak- seems like a good a time as any to discuss our views on the left in general. this is a possible source of their intelligence). They ing calls to others in our coalition about your request, it also don’t state which anarchist group they have was decided that no particulars would be revealed in the Beyond Left and Right, Beyond Control… “infiltrated” (nor do they offer proof that they have event of any interview. Both capitalism and communism are failed systems, soon to be fossils, that done so), though the obvious assumption is the Phoenix I can however tell you that we do believe in the first attempt to exist outside the natural (biological) world, corrupting everything Anarchist Coalition or its east valley collective, the Amendment and the exercise of it by protestors, however (the ecology, human health and relationships – even the weather!) with their Monsoon Anarchist Collective. we feel that some people/groups have stepped across that destructive influence, as our souls bleed a slow death from the meaninglessness People should remember that one sure sign of fascism fine line between use and abuse of their Constitutional of it all. Both capitalism and communism reduce human beings to commodities, is the rise of paramilitary groups who operate with rights. To us they have yelled “fire” in a crowded theatre. where our lives count only as cogs in some system and where every individual the tacit (or even open) approval of the State. This, We know the police are being harassed and baited into is leveled into the anonymous mass or fitted into an organization — or both at along with the development of anti-immigrant taking actions against these protestors that of course they once. Under capitalism or communism, uniformity and banality characterize militias, is a very disturbing development if true, will exploit in the media, police brutality etc. To this point the general existence in which all individual subjects of the state have been particularly given its presence in Arizona’s largest city. these extremists have not succeeded in doing the job. reduced to zero. Under either system — which both worship at the altar of It is important to point out a few things. There is We feel it is past time to Eliminate this element from industrialism — the biosphere itself is wounded and covered over with no evidence of infiltration, and no one we know has our society. we feel it is our Patriotic duty. At almost any standardizing uniformity by an abstractly organizing technology, so much so reported any evidence of an attack or specific threat other time their protests would not be a bother to us but that in many bioregions the landscape already has the appearance of a machine- to anyone in particular. Nor is there evidence, aside due to the nature of our Countries [sic] current situation, made commodity and gives off no aura, as if the planet is being rebuilt to from these statements and the website, that this group and the fact that we have been watching the activities of become one giant Tokyo interspersed with patches of agriculture. Capitalism even exists, not to mention whether it has the numbers this/these groups for over 6 months (and before they even and communism are two fronts in a 10,000 year war on wildness and both leave it claims. started their Anti-war campaign) we know for a fact the human spirit limping in alienation. Correlative with the poisonously grey This also comes in the context of the prominent that the Anti-Government and Anti-American Ideals that nature of capitalist and communist societies is not only subjective but objective arrest of local anti-racist, anti-police organizer, Laro many of these people have are Parallel to that of domestic boredom. This is not the kind of boredom which eventually exhausts itself Nichol by ATF on weapons and explosives charges. terrorists. (that is, fades after having risen to the level of nausea); it is, rather, a stultifying, Also, it is important to note that COINTELPRO We started our operations and monitoring of this group omnipresent atmosphere of psychic immiseration that reinforces the profound informs us that the police have frequently used back in June or July of last year, our initial beef with this emptiness of civilized life. paranoia and suspicion as weapons to destroy groups group of Anti-American subversives started with their As regular readers of this paper know, about the only thing we have in common from the inside, so most anarchists I know are not Anti-Border militia activities. We have a number of with communists is a hatred for capitalism, but for us this extends to a hatred over-reacting to this news. No one we know has been people infiltrated to this anarchist group and this is why for all forms of bureaucracy, all forms of government, and an explosive, deterred from their normal activities. Work continues. we know what we know and what we know is what will all-consuming hatred for the industrial system itself. We oppose the state, not We’re sharing this information to make other anarchists drive us to fulfill the missions that we seek to accomplish. merely, as according to Marxist analysis, by virtue of the class interests which aware of a possibly disturbing turn of events, but not God Bless America, Have a Freedom Day. -VPC” the state serves, but by virtue of the fact that it is the state. As green anarchists, we stand outside the entire left/right spectrum of political thought (which we regard as a shallow, binary construct of civilized logic) and view the industrial Support Barbara Smedema: It’s Your power structure from a radically different perspective. Anarchy is not an idealistic experiment in anti-authoritarian theory that we seek to test, it is a Choice - Resistance or Anhiliation! mode of existence that we seek to reclaim, a condition of unimpeded wildness Green Anarchy has just learned that Dutch anti-war activist, already existed that has and that our species has enjoyed for 99% of our time on Barbara Smedema, is being imprisoned in the Women’s this planet — before artificial systems of control like the state, religion, feudalism, Penitentiary Institution in Evertsoord, Holland. She is socialism, etc., were imposed on us. This is something the left is not able to being held for sabotaging the communication discs on an comprehend about the anarchy movement, as they attempt to corral us into their limited arena and claim ownership over our struggle by labeling anarchists the American communication bunker at the military airport “extreme, utopian” branch of the ultra-left. But the left’s strategies of containment Volkel. She carried out her action on the night of Feb 9, will not succeed this time around, for we’ve learned from our bitter defeats and 2003, when she dismantled the discs causing roughly our failed opportunities, and we’ll no longer be hoodwinked by the lies of those 500,000 euros in damage. This action was taken as an act who would have us believe in the inevitable “withering away of the state”. of resistance against the (then) impending threat of war This, of course, brings up the question of what other movements of the against Iraq. In this military bunker, which operates 24 hours dispossessed do we support and extend solidarity to, and under what circumstances? a day, 7 days a week, the military communicates on Clearly, supporting authoritarian movements and ideologies is going to get us matters concerning the American nuclear bombs that are nowhere, but how does this insight apply to a group like N17, who were/are located at the base in eleven special bunkers. It is claimed explicitly anti-Stalinist and seem to have wanted something akin to “direct that for the past 30 years secret planning has been taking democracy”, and who have also demonstrated solidarity with anarchists in the place at this bunker in preparation for possible deployment past? At what point is enough common ground established to render our political of the nuclear missles stored there. Actions like this are a differences insignificant and incapable of hampering effective, collaborative necessary part of dismantling the omnicidal war machine resistance against our shared enemy? and it’s important to support those who get caught We bring these questions up not to undermine support for the N17 prisoners, engaging in acts of defiance. As Barbara herself puts it, but because we feel these are the types of questions the anarchist movement “We do not have the illusion that we can stop the war- needs to be asking itself, as we assert our autonomy from the opportunistic left machine in this way but we need to show hope and and renew our struggle with no illusions about what we’re fighting for. confidence that the world can be different.” We would love to get some feedback on this article from Please write: Barbara Smedema, P.I. Ter Peel, anarchists in Greece.For more background on the N17 Movement, check-out the last few issues of Green Anarchy. Patersweg 4, 5977 NM Evertsoord, Holland. Summer ‘03 page 15 GREEN ANARCHY #13 THERepression GRIP Reports FromTIGHTENS Around The World If you’d like to help SHAC-USA out, we welcome donations to presence of a 24-hour surveillance camera in his cell. After replace some lost office equipment, and to cover legal fees. Checks ending his fast, Van der Graaf was transferred to a State mental and money orders can be made out to “SHAC-USA” and mailed to hospital for “observation”, where Green Anarchy attempted to PO Box 22398, Philadelphia, PA, 19110. Also, please forward us make contact with him and conduct an interview. Van der Graaf the names of any sympathetic lawyers; help us complete a kick ass had made a dramatic and unexpected confession to the court legal team to squash this bug of an investigation. Keep active, keep during his first appearance there on March 27, and we were angry, and keep your heads up. anxious to hear his side of the story, but transatlantic communication Remember, if you are visited by the FBI, or any other authority, barriers prevented us from learning anything more about his tell them firmly that you have nothing to say and to go away. Say it situation until his recent sentencing in mid-April, 2003. Van der over and over again as many times as necessary until they do. You do Graaf was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by a surprisingly not even need to open the door unless they have a search warrant. If lenient Dutch court, after explaining that he felt it was his moral you are visited, please contact SHAC-USA at 609.936.8422 or duty to help groups in society that he considered threatened by 888.354.2435 for support. And remember, whether they have a Fortuyn, whose rise to political power Van der Graaf compared warrant or not - NO MATTER WHAT - YOU DO NOT NEED to that of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s. Because he expressed March 26: Trial Begins For Teen Charged TO SAY *ANYTHING* TO THEM. “remorse” and claimed during his trial that he was now “struggling” Now more than ever, SMASH HLS. with the question of whether his act was acceptable, the presiding In Costly School Fire For the animals, judge ruled that “Dutch society should not give up on the hope of Van der Graaf being rehabilitated,” and dished out a comparatively A prosecutor told a Taylor County jury that a 17-year-old is a - SHAC-USA.” mild sentence. Pym Fortuyn supporters were outraged by the self-proclaimed anarchist who orchestrated a fire that damaged light sentence and even many of our Dutch anarchist contacts an Abilene school. The statement came as the arson trial of Nikolas May 6: Volkert van der Graaf Gets 18 Years For admit that there are many puzzling questions about this case that Pethis got under way in Abilene. The prosecutor says the fire haven’t been answered: for example, where Van der Graaf learned caused $1.5-million in damage to Wylie Junior High School in The Assassination Of Right-Wing Politician to shoot with such accuracy, where he obtained the extremely Abilene. Pethis is accused of leading a group of teens suspected in Dutch extreme right-wing party leader Pim Fortuyn was shot uncommon weapon in the first place (guns are hard to come by several arsons last year, as well as thefts, burglaries and vandalism to death (five times at close range) as he walked to his car after a in Dutch society), why the clumsy escape attempt, and how come in the months leading to the Wylie blaze. Pethis is being tried as campaign radio interview. Fortuyn was outspokenly racist, having there has been no attempt to identify the other people who were an adult on a charge of organized criminal activity. If convicted, recently published a book seen fleeing the assassination scene by he could be placed on probation or serve up to life in prison. against the “Islamification” of eyewitnesses? Some have even suggested that Pethis’ attorney told jurors that he wasn’t at the school when it Dutch culture, a self- there might have been State complicity in was set ablaze February ninth of last year. Attorney Lynn Ingalsbe proclaimed “populist” Fortuyn’s murder, speculating that he was says the fires were “random acts of juvenile violence.” candidate who was in the viewed as an equal threat to the establishment process of successfully building as he was to foreigners. But like the convoluted, April 24, Belgium: Geert Waegemans Released! an “anti-immigration” political Machiavellian web of intrigue surrounding the Geert had been serving 5 years for various ALF arsons. Controversially party in the Netherlands. N17 movement in Greece, we’ll probably he named police informant, Anja Hermans, as aiding him with Moments after the fatal never know the answers to these questions. his actions after she named him as an ALF activist & alerted the shooting of Fortuyn, Dutch If anyone reading this has more up-to-date police to his activity. Following Geert’s conviction for various police chased down and arrested 33 year-old Volkert information on Volkert van der Graaf ALF arsons the police were threatening to prosecute Geert for (especially his prison mailing address), then membership of a criminal organization (the ALF) and are also van der Graaf and charged him with murder and illegal please contact the Green Anarchy Collective looking to place further ALF arson charges against him. He at: P.O. Box 11331, Eugene, Oregon, 97440 however, is now out of jail. weapons possession; Police supposedly found a pistol on or [email protected] April 26: Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty US van der Graaf that ballistically May 21, California: Animal matched the pistol used to Statement About FBI Raid On Their House assassinate Fortuyn and later Rights Activist Extradited To “We all knew it would happen some day. The SHAC-USA office claimed to have found was raided by the FBI this week. In the midst of moving to our new ammunition at the suspect’s New York office location, about 20 FBI agents and a search warrant came in home in Harderwijk, about Sabrina Forsey, an animal rights activist and carted off a few computers and other items. But rest assured, we 30 miles east of Amsterdam, currently living in Oceanside, California, was are now settled into our new office location and up and running!! that matched shell casings at extradited to New York last month after Even with their most dramatic efforts, the Feds are still always one the crime scene. Volkert van der Graff was initially being police raided her home in connection with a charge from an step behind. described by the Dutch media as an animal rights and environ- old Bank of New York demonstration two years ago. She is Well, we wish them fun times in combing through our stuff. In the mental activist who for years had peacefully and legally fought being charged with riot and forgery (allegedly for giving false meantime, it’s business as usual and there’s a campaign to be won - industrial factory farming in the Dutch courts. A founder of the identification during her initial arrest.) Her next court date is and we are more eager than ever to win it! As of Monday we will animal and environmental advocacy group Environmental on June 17- for her lawyer to submit a briefing to the court on have a new office number and can be reached at: 609.936.8422. Offensive, van der Graff worked on more than 2,000 lawsuits to why she should be treated as a “youthful offender”, as she was Let this latest turn of events be a jolt of caffeine for the campaign fight the expansion of industrial animal farming, and his arrest 17 when the charges first occurred. and the animal rights movement. This raid is the clearest sign yet came as shock to most of his former activist colleagues. Shortly that the HLS campaign is being effective - even more so than we may after van der Graff was officially charged with Fortuyn’s murder, The purpose of the enemy is to break our have thought. Rather than being derailed, we are driven by even there was an almost complete media blackout on his case here in bones, the only target they can see. more injustice against which to fight. Not only are the animals at the U.S. and it became difficult for us to provide our readers with regular updates. With the help of some of our anarchist Our purpose is to defend the collective HLS under attack, but our own activists. It’s time to pull together imagination now gaining momentum. even more than before, resist this criminalization of dissent, and comrades in Holland, we were able to learn that on July 12, 2002, finish the hellhole that is HLS off for good! van der Graff began a 70-day hunger strike to protest the

InternalInternal screams,screams, InternalInternal screamsscreams Former ELF Spokesmen Form New National Restlessness,Restlessness, tossing,tossing, turningturning DreamingDreaming ofof destruction!destruction! Revolutionary Organization in U.S. Distrust,Distrust, torment,torment, painpain May 12, Portland, Oregon: Leslie James Pickering and Craig Rosebraugh, the former spokespersons for the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office, announced INTERNALINTERNAL SCREAMS!SCREAMS! the formation of a new revolutionary organization in the United States called Arissa. NoxiousNoxious air,air, factoryfactory farms,farms, deforestation,deforestation, “Arissa is an effort at building an effective revolutionary movement in the United States,” OzoneOzone depletiondepletion the group proclaims on its website: www.arissa.org. “Until such time as a revolution IngestingIngesting destruction!destruction! occurs, the U.S. political structure will continue to inflict widespread atrocities on a Cloning, birth control, abortion domestic and international level.” Both Pickering and Rosebraugh operated the North Cloning, birth control, abortion American Earth Liberation Front Press Office, an independent public relations group InternalInternal screams!screams! ideologically supporting the Earth Liberation Front. Pickering and Rosebraugh left the Poor,Poor, hunger,hunger, homelessnesshomelessness press office after concluding that more directed, strategic, and severe action needed to be LivingLiving destruction!destruction! taken against the political structure itself in the United States. Both maintain that only a NobodyNobody carescares ‘cause‘cause political and social revolution in the United States will create the necessary opportunity to alleviate most domestic and international human and environmental problems caused SeinfeldSeinfeld isis on!on! by the U.S. government. Determining that the pursuit of building an effective revolutionary movement must begin with public education, Arissa in the near future will be offering -- TurkeyTurkey educational materials in various forms of media designed to demonstrate the need for a AKAAKA TracyTracy BoothBooth revolution in the United States. For more information contact: Arissa PO Box 6058, Portland, Oregon 97228-6058. Email [email protected] Call: (716)698-2396 or (503)703-6069. GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 16 Summer ‘03 TheTheThe GiaGiaGiantGiantntnt IsIsIs AwakeAwakeningAwakeAwakeningAwakeAwakeningningningning!!!!

Prisoner Uprisings & Solidarity“I’ll Actions watch your system fall, I’ll live to see us free. Your soul is so corrupt, & Solidarityyour Actions heart is truly black. I never used to hate, till you put a gun to my back. You fueled this rage inside me, made me who I am. Your oppression made us hate. You made us warriors.... Now tonight we strike.” - Jeff “Free” Luers

December 28, 2002, California: Prisoners on Hunger Strike May , Italy: Exercise Yard Melee Injures Prisoners at the Colina II prison in Santiago, Chile, began a North African Immigrants Riot at Guards And Prisoners hunger strike during the week of March 24 to protest jail Italian Detention Centre A scuffle between prisoners and guards at the California conditions and demand that a recent law be applied to During the evening there was a small rebellion in a State Prison-Sacramento in Folsom left two guards and an prisoners already serving time. Law 19.856, published this “welcoming” center for immigrants at Ponte Galeria in Italy. unidentified number of prisoners injured. The incident past February, provides certain benefits and reduces jail time About 80 North Africans, complaining that supper was occurred in an exercise yard when guards attempting to for good behavior. When authorities ignored their demands, served much later than usual, occupied the detention break up a fight between two prisoners were attacked by the hunger strikers stepped up the protest by self-inflicting center and began to burn mattresses. When the at least 16 other prisoners. The prisoners were subdued stab wounds; at least 26 were hospitalized with minor wounds “mobile department” and guards arrived they were with pepper spray, batons, rubber bullets and warning shots on March 27. Another 40 hunger strikers from Colina II were “welcomed” with stones and other thrown objects. Two from assault rifles. The prison was locked down as a result. hospitalized on April 2 with self-inflicted wounds. men briefly escaped but were caught shortly after by The Confraternity of Common Prisoners (Confrapeco) agents. The area was surrounded for several weeks to December 30, 2002, Colorado: warned that the protest would spread quickly around the prevent other escapes. Juvenile Prisoners Riot! country. Prisoners at the Ex Penitenciaría joined the hunger strike on March 30, and 43 prisoners at the preventive 22 juvenile prisoners at the Lookout Mountain Youth May 10-11, Algeria: detention center in Osorno joined on April 1. The next day, Services Center rioted, causing a small amount of damage Police Quell Jail Riot With Tear Gas nearly 1,500 prisoners at El Manzano prison in Concepción to the facility which is operated by Youth Track, a private, ALGIERS - Anti-riot police lobbed tear gas to quell a mu- and another 200 in Chillán prison joined the protest. Denver-based company. No reason was given for the tiny at Algeria’s biggest prison where inmates protested uprising in media reports. against their exclusion from a presidential pardon of 5,000 Mass jailbreak in Brazil prisoners. Prisoners at the fortress prison of Tazoult near Uprising at Shotts prison Officials in Brazil say at least 100 juvenile offenders have Batna in eastern Algeria had climbed on to the roofs of jail escaped from a detention center in the city of Sao Paulo. The On 2 January at least 80 long-term prisoners at Shotts buildings and burned bedding in a riot which began the police are using helicopters and police dogs to search for the maximum security prison in Scotland staged a mass protest night before. A statement from the Batna public prosecutor’s escapees. Correspondents say there have been 30 jail breaks by seizing control of two wings of the gaol for 19 hours. A office said four members of the security forces were slightly and rebellions so far this year in Brazilian prisons. negotiated end to the “disturbance” eventually took place, injured and four prison inmates had “suffered effects from indicating a recognition by the authorities that the use of (tear) gas inhalation.” The official APS news agency, physical force to end the prisoners’ protest would encounter “Some may think this message citing a medical source at the nearby university hospital, fierce resistance, although the source of the prisoners’ rage said earlier eight prisoners were injured and taken to seems harsh. But, what’ll hospital, two of whom needed surgery. The statement said remains unresolved. Throughout the protest the Scottish you do when YOU ain’t got no Prison Service (SPS) maintained a conspicuous silence on security forces using tear gas restored order at the high- exactly what had fuelled the prisoners’ action, while the freedom left? Sometimes security prison on May 11. The operation took place after media’s reporting of the protest focused almost solely on non-violence is compliance. talks between officials and prisoners to halt the riot broke the alleged injuries received by two prison officers who, it Sometimes you have to fight down. It gave no further details on the action but said the was claimed, had been hurt while trying to intervene and back if you ever want things protest had involved “a limited number of detainees,” all serving long terms for common law offences. APS reported stop a fight between rival prisoner gangs. This was a total to change. Don’t just stand lie as it turned out, and eventually the prisoners hung a smoke could be seen billowing from the prison after banner from a window, saying “Leave our visitors alone”, there. FIGHT BACK NOW!!” inmates, some on top of the roof and others in their cells, indicating that the protest had been sparked by the treat- set fire to bedding. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika marked ment of prisoners’ families. The strip-searching of prisoners’ - Jeff “Free” Luers the coming birthday of the Prophet Mohammad by families, including old people and small children, provoked pardoning 5,000 of the North African country’s prisoners. an earlier uprising at Shotts in the late 1980s. The amnesty, ahead of the celebration, included some April 19, Austrailia: Less than a week after the protest on 2 January, a second inmates sentenced to life in prison but not those jailed for “disturbance” broke out at Shotts. This time in a special Protests at Baxter terrorism, corruption, drug trafficking or rape. In 1994, a unit for “difficult” prisoners, and again the media focused Demonstrators clashed with police for the second day running heavily armed group of Islamic fundamentalists attacked exclusively on the injuries allegedly sustained by prison outside Australia’s newest detention center for asylum the top-security Tazoult prison and freed about 1,000 officers, while the SPS maintained its usual silence on seekers. Hundreds of protesters opposed to the country’s high-risk prisoners. Riots and mutinies are common in the exactly why Shotts was so clearly in a state of turmoil and policy of mandatory detention of refugees had gathered Maghreb country due to overcrowding and poor living open revolt. The impression deliberately created was one for the weekend at the Baxter camp in the state of South conditions. of violent and unmanageable prisoners attacking and injuring Australia. At least five people were arrested when they prison staff without reason or cause. In reality, Shotts as an attempted to breach a security cordon around the camp, Philippines: institution is intrinsically designed to provoke bitterness and which is 260 kilometers (160 miles) north of Adelaide. Inmates Stage Riot confrontation, and since its creation in the early 1980s, its Protesters say detainees at Baxter are treated brutally - CEBU CITY - Several inmates at the Bagong Buhay regime has been based on the principle of completely an allegation denied by immigration officials. Rehabilitation Center (BBRC) were reportedly injured during disempowering prisoners and denying them any opportunity Despite a large police presence, which includes an afternoon riot in the city jail where some 200 angry or right to peacefully resolve their differences with the mounted officers, riot squads and even boats patrolling prisoners staged a noise barrage, exploded Molotov administration. It is a torture chamber built for repression offshore, campaigners have insisted they are determined cocktail bombs and wrecked the jail’s canteen. The trouble and brutality. Since 1987 there have been at least five major to get as close as possible to deliver their message of in BBRC erupted after the visiting rights of inmates were uprisings at Shotts, and for much of the prison’s history support for the detainees. The demonstration started suspended until they surrendered firearms, a hand grenade prisoners there have experienced a virtual lock-down regime. peacefully with the participants banging pots and pans and five cellular phones allegedly hidden inside. Jail to make a noise, whilst chanting “Free the refugees”. officials ordered the suspension of the inmates’ visiting February 11, Oregon: Graffiti was sprayed on signs, gates and barbed-wire privileges after the daring escape of five robbery suspects, Prisoners Get Probation For fencing pulled down as the crowd tried to breach the camp two of them armed with .45 caliber pistols. Most of the Participating In A Riot perimeter. But they were held back by about 200 police in riot escapees have now been apprehended. Recently, inmates gear, some of whom were on horseback. The center holds 300 began banging plates and other utensils on the grills of MEDFORD - Eight prisoners who took part in a jailhouse “illegal” immigrants whose applications for refugee status have Gate 3 at about 1 p.m. and were shouting after jail officials riot have been sentenced to “community service” (road crew) been rejected and who are awaiting deportation. It opened did not allow their families and friends to get inside. They and probation for defying their captors. The riot, which last year after the camp at Woomera, which was the scene of claimed that they were being punished for the escape of occurred on Feb. 11, lasted approximately 30 minutes. violent protests last Easter, was taken out of use. the five inmates. Summer ‘03 page 21 GREEN ANARCHY #13 (perhaps because we don’t believe that it’s possible words, but images as well. But among the 45 million Italians for something that we can calmly hold in our hands who own cell phones, and among the remaining few who still to kill us), the fear of what we don’t know and can’t lack one, fear and discontent increases as well about these sources see and touch is another thing altogether. Viruses, of waves placed in the neighborhood of schools and housing. Of bacteria and radiation have killed quite enough, at course, a bit of hypocrisy can be seen here in those who don’t bottom, and none of us could see or feel them, want electro-smog but at the same time demand optimum THE necessarily delegating the knowledge of and defense reception with their little phones, but it is necessary not to fall against them to science and its people. Their lordships into the trap of considering those who manufacture and disseminate love to describe a fear of this kind as “irrational” in what is harmful and those who are induced to use it in the same their greed to control it in order to reduce everything light. It would be like seeing everyone who uses electricity as ENEMY to the vision of their rationality; through measurement, complicit in the nuclear industry, an idea that in the end screening, legal limits, appeals to an unstoppable becomes an easy excuse for the holders of power who want to progress, the attempt to make every danger scientific make us feel like their accomplices, with the logic that for one’s IS in order to render it palatable (“rational” to be personal good a collective harm is unavoidable. A logic of the precise) but they cannot hide the roots planted so same sort that claims that for the collective good of society — in thoroughly into this reality: the cases of leukemia, this case the progress, security and convenience brought by the tumors and dozens of other maladies are increasing telephones—it is necessary to sacrifice with an individual harm, QUITEQUITE and more and more people die without being able to the antenna over one’s head. In this way, it becomes difficult to clearly link it to a precise cause. Because there are rebel any more, feeling on the one hand complicit and on the thousands of causes. The invisible but omnipresent other, egoistic in one’s demands. harmfulness strikes everyone, and no one escapes So it becomes necessary to understand the snares of psychological VISIBLEVISIBLE from it. terror, because new passages are revealing themselves in which But in this climate, some manifest certainties also new channels of resistance have opened. Resistance that is, emerge, as always. First of all, that neither the furthermore, quite widespread with innumerable committees and reassurances of the experts nor the legal limits placed individual actions against the antennae throughout the territory. on the potency of the transmitters will protect us from A struggle that, if it usually has partial objectives, is, nonetheless, [ FROM TERRA SELVAGGIA ] electro-smog. The latter and the technical organizations frequently carried forward with a deep personal involvement, appointed to their measurement are solely price-fixing setting aside sterile and useless institutional methods like the decrees useful for giving the appearance of a situation collection of signatures and the appeal to politicians. In reality, FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW, EVEN ON THE LEVEL under control and pacifying the most enflamed minds. We will never one sees road blockades, climbing on roofs or scaffolding with of the mass media, there has been talk about risks connected grow tired of confirming that we can never expect the protection fastenings and lowering placards as well as the blockage of work with the over-abundance of electro-magnetic waves in the of our health from that which poisons us: the state and capital in at the installations. Moreover, some have acted under the cover environment. Though the most frequently mentioned and feared their technologically advanced form. And it is with this conviction, of night with the heat of fire to destroy these hateful antennae. sources are the transmitters for cellular phones, these are combined with the desire not to see the antennae altered but to These last actions are not distinct or separate from the struggle certainly not alone, but are merely the latest on the scene. In make them disappear completely, that we must animate the struggle in which they arise. Indeed, let’s leave the distinction between fact, radio and TV antennae, radar platforms, high tension wires, against the antennae. Then the struggle would have to have different “ecoterrorist” and “honest citizen” — useful for dividing a movement military stations and dozens of different electrical household contents and methods. of opposition and justifying acts of repression against those who appliances have already been disseminating waves for decades Also, the antennae do not just represent an assault on our health, do not disassociate themselves from a practice of sabotage, but that, even if trifling when taken singly, together and with continuous but are also realizations of the development of technological rather recognize its importance to the struggle — to the infamous exposure could have effects on the health of living beings. society toward new forms of economic expansion in alienating journalists, politicians and armchair environmentalists. And if these effects are still largely unknown, or absolutely communications and control. We must not, in fact, forget that it We are interested in a struggle from the base, without hierarchy, denied with firmness by a few of the usual experts, this is no is not just our phone calls that travel through these waves, but specialization or compromise. We think that this is an area in which reason for putting one’s mind at ease. After all, the greatest fear also data and information that in their totality form a huge cage a partial struggle could become a point of departure for a generalized is that of the unknown. And in this case, the unknown is not just in which to enclose us, signals that keep track of us hour after critique of power, and a consequent practice in which each one that of the future reversal of health in our bodies (or those of hour, making it indispensable to behave when near an chooses the method and moment that he or she prefers. others), of new incurable diseases or of the expansion of cancer- optimum signaling device like the cellular phone. caused slaughter, but also in the invisible nature of the poison in In a land already polluted by thousands of antennae, they will Terra Selvaggia, question. If the pure and solid dust of DDT was handled without not hesitate to bring in just as many more for the third generation is an anti-civ, italian language publication. care or apprehension, as, not surprisingly, other substances still are of cellular phones, capable of transmitting not just voices and Write to Silvestre, via del Coure no.1, 56100 Pisa, Italia

“The last communities do a ghost dance, and the ghosts of the last communities will continue to dance within the entrails of the artificial beast. The council-fires of the never-defeated communities are not extinguished by the genocidal invaders… The fire is eclipsed by something dark, but continues to burn, and its flames shoot out where they are least expected.” - Fredy Perlman, Against History, Against Leviathan Into the Darkness! Earth Liberation Front Actions

April 1, Alabama: hicles and trucks in a late-night spray- This series of actions comes at a most in this giant gamble?” When asked to Navy Vehicles painting blitz. Slogans including “No embarrassing time for both Biotech answer the charge that these recent ELF Targeted By ELF Blood For Oil”, “SUV’s Suck” and “No War” Company, Aventis, and the government actions amount to no more than a form of MONTGOMERY—Vehicles at a Navy were plastered onto 45 new vehicles at who are embarking on a GM Public Debate vandalism, Cathy stood up for her un-named recruiting headquarters were attacked the North Bay Ford and Lincoln Mercury in May. A spokesperson for the ELF cell who colleagues. “These are proud and lovely overnight. Damages included messages dealership on Soquel Avenue, as well as agreed to be known only as GM Free Cathy people who wouldn’t harm a flea but who spray-painted on three Navy sedans and onto 18 or 20 vehicles parked in front of said, “Our action is different from those will always stand up for what they know is two Navy vans. In addition, a large residents’ homes. The graffiti also carried out by other groups. We decided right,” she said. two-panel truck was set on fire. Damage included references to ELF, or the Earth that we needed plenty of time to remove estimates are not known at this time. Liberation Front, a radical environmental as much of the crop as possible. We first “In the ancient Anatolia people danced Messages spray-painted included the group that has previously taken credit for entered the field on a frosty December night on the earth-covered ruins of the Hittite slogans “Stop the War,” “Leave Iraq” and torching and vandalizing dozens of SUV’s and have since returned five times, decon- Leviathan and built their lodges with stones “Stop Killing,” clearly indicating the reason in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Santa Cruz taminating a different part of the field on which contained the records of the this ELF cell targeted the military facility. police believe the late-night spree might each visit. As the crop grew we changed vanished empire’s great deeds. It was also reported that all cars and vans have been the work of the ELF, but no our technique, using hoes when the plants targeted carried the ELF signature in links have yet been established. were small and scythes when they became The cycle has come around again. America spray-paint. This is the first specifically waist high. We even perfected our own tool is where Anatolia was. It is a place where anti-war action carried out by the ELF in May 7, United Kingdom: using pallet wood.” “Apart from being human beings, just to stay alive, have to jump, North America, though there have been ELF Destroys Multiple dangerous to other plants and the whole to dance, and by dancing revive the rythems, several direct action attacks on military GM Crops at 11th Hour environment if genes transfer, these crops recover cyclical time. An-archic and recruiting centers since the start of the An Earth Liberation Front cell has made a benefit no-one except the seed companies,” pantheistic dancers no longer sense the war in Iraq. total of six audacious actions to disable said Cathy. “They have no added value artifice and its linear His-story as All, one of the last midlands GM farm scale trials nutritionally, they are not cheaper and the April 11, California: of Genetically Modified crops. On their last farmers are locked into impossibly tight but mearly one cycle, one long night, ELF Hits SUV’s With visit early in the morning of Saturday May contracts. In short, they are a cynical a stormy night that left Earth wounded, Anti-War Message 3, the group even stayed until daybreak attempt to control the entire food production but a night that ends, as all nights end, SANTA CRUZ—Police are searching for so that they could photograph the results process from seed to plate. We would not when the sun rises.” vandals with an anti-war message who of their work (editors note: carefully consider accept this type of monopoly in any other - Fredy Perlman this practice from a security standpoint). business. Why risk the world’s food supply defaced an estimated 65 sport utility ve- Against History, Against Leviathan

GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 22 Summer ‘03 Against the Engineered Mu tati on s of Life! Anti-Genetics Actions

“He snips at what surrounds him. He inserts, recombines, rearranges, edits, programs, produces. The result: the natural world is. But is not. Here is a potato. A potato, but not a real potato, for it harbors the gene of a chicken. Here is an ear of corn made of insects, there a trout with human DNA. Look! It’s a sheep sporting tobacco genes. Lo and behold. They’ve edited a mouse with a human ear growing out of its back!” —Chellis Glendinning, Off the Map

January 16, France: May 20, Brazil: French Actors Destroy GM Crops Militants Invade Monsanto In Support Of Jose Bove Biotech Test Farm A group of French actors, scientists and (unfortunately) SAO PAULO—Militants of the Landless Peasant Movement politicians destroyed a field of genetically modified rapeseed (MST) in Brazil invaded a Monsanto Co. test farm in a bid in support of anti-globalization activist Jose Bove, who was “to expel” the U.S. biotech giant and set up an organic farm sentenced to a prison term in November 2002 for a similar on the site. The incursion by some 80 members from the action. Bove, a rebel celebrity in France for his high-profile MST and other landless groups onto an experimental farm campaign against what he calls “junk food”, was sentenced to in Ponta Grosso, Parana was aimed at stopping Monsanto Why Incremental 14 months in jail for a 1999 attack on a field of GM rice at a from using farming methods unpopular in the state, according research center near the southern city of Montpelier. Although to the group. Parana is a large farm state in southern Brazil Reforms Are Killing Us: this action was slightly marred by the presence of several French where Monsanto tests conventional and genetically modified politicians seeking to boost their careers by capitalizing on a corn and soybeans. Activists said the objective of the An Eco-Anarchist Perspective on popular, grassroots struggle, we were happy to see more crop occupation was “to expel” Monsanto from the state and the GMO Labeling Movement pullings start to occur again in Europe. While GM crops are convert the 43 hectare (106 acre) farm to organic production. common in the United States, France and other European Monsanto is one of Brazil’s biggest producers and sellers of In light of the success that the “economic sabotage” wing of countries are dubious about using the new genetic technology conventional soy, corn and other crop seed stock, as well as the anti-Genetix movement has had in the UK and France, in Agriculture. France grows experimental GM crops at about farm chemicals and fertilizers. The Ponta Grossa farm was it’s an utter embarrassment to see north amerika’s lame 100 test sites, all approved by the government’s Farm Ministry. invaded on May 9 by 800 militants who destroyed some activoid counterparts whining about ethical labeling and “fully informed” consumerism, once again missing an opportunity laboratories and burned down cornfields. Monsanto said it to confront the totality of the System that spawned biotech, April 7, United Kingdom: has asked authorities to prosecute those responsible for nanotech, napalm, nuclear power, and every other techno- Group Destroys GM Trial Crop “acts of violence against its staff, property and research logic-kill horror we’re smothered by. The biotechnology Environmental militants claim to have completely and development in Brazil.” industry is expanding and consolidating too fast for us to destroyed a genetically modified crop trial in North York- articulate anything short of a fundamental challenge to the A Step towards Victory! shire. The raid was just the latest in a series of attacks “New World Order” of globalization and industrial technology. targeting GM oil seed rape at Hedley Hall, near Tadcaster, Unrelenting Sabotage Prompts A “final solution” paradigm is fast approaching and to simply slow it down is to pass off the work of real change to future owned by Leeds University. An anonymous spokesman Mass Exodus of Europe’s Biotech generations. Let’s do everything we can to uproot these for the activists said: “This crop of GM oil seed rape is Companies from Genetically seeds of destruction before the monocultures of the mind now 100 percent destroyed—completely destroyed. Modified Crops erase life’s genetic memory banks. Probably every single plant has been either uprooted or Europe’s biotech firms have cancelled millions of pounds As currently framed, the request to the US government to broken.” In a phone call to the Evening Press, he said the worth of research into GE crops, sending the industry into label products containing GMOs fails to address the root causes and motivations behind the development and test site was now “invalid” and would be yielding no a steep slump, according to a new European Union study. data. He claimed the vast majority of people were commercialization of agricultural biotech, not to mention The European Commission report admitted that nearly two the governmental acquiescence that has allowed these opposed to this “malignant technology” and suggested thirds of the EU’s biotech companies have cancelled GM that it might be in Leeds University’s best interest to technologies to flood the market already. In case you research projects over the last four years, mainly because haven’t noticed, no fundamental challenge to state power cease its work on genetically engineered crops. of the controversy over the safety and labeling of GM crops, ever comes of polite requests. If our only goal is to foster April 9, Germany: and continuing militant resistance. The Commission also more consumer choice for us and others of our privileged GM Wheat Trials Approved found that the number of GM field trial applications fell by class, and slow down the eventual domination of the world’s 76 percent last year, from the 250 submitted in 1998 to a food supply by a few mega-corporations, the government But Site Sabotaged level not seen since 1992. By comparison, U.S. field trial would love to accommodate us, and does so regularly, at the HAMBURG—German authorities said that they had recently bids have remained relatively stable at about 1,000 a expense of cultural and biological autonomy everywhere else. Both self-appointed and popularly “elected” government approved an application from Swiss agribusiness giants year (this needs to change!). The Commission’s gloom Syngenta to start Germany’s first trials of genetically modified elites have facilitated the accumulation of resource-based deepened after an opinion poll of 16,500 people showed capital around the globe ever since they first imposed (GM) wheat. But the following day some 25 Greenpeace deep-rooted disgust with GM crops. themselves on primitive and village-scale societies. State activists sowed organic wheat seed on the test site, aimed power continues to facilitate this kind of colonialism at ruining trials as it would be impossible to tell the today through the skillful architecture of modern “demo- difference between GMO and conventional wheat. “It does cratic” institutions that fool citizens into thinking they have seem that the test area may not be usable now,” said influence over their communities and the course of history. Peter Hefner, a spokesman for Syngenta in Germany. “There “Chemists have long But while political “representatives” bicker over who and is a time limit for plantings because of the wheat’s biology. since invaded the what is bought and sold and to whom and how, the This raises questions about how we can undertake scientific structure of molecules, overarching theme of commercial industrial exploitation of research in Germany. It appears undertaking such research everything imaginable (and then some) persists from within passing parts from one a realm that goes largely unquestioned, as evidenced by in Germany will be problematic.” substance to another, Intellectual Property Rights, IMF and World Bank “development” May 13, Scotland: making them into programs, NAFTA, GATT, not to mention the proliferation of Test Crops Slashed by Anti-GM something they are not. the military-industrial-nuclear-computer complex. Now bioengineers GMOs in US food products are already too widespread Militants are invading the for a Labeling law to do anything but convince most Environmental militants have claimed responsibility for an consumers that the point is moot. While this simple reform makeup of sentient is possible within the current framework of US politics, it is attack on field-scale GM test crops in Aberdeenshire. Anti- beings, acting like GM saboteurs said they took the action in the night to prevent beings, acting like a bare-minimum concession. “Demand the impossible” must be the central motto for any radical social movement. The cross-contamination between flowering genetically modified Cristóbal Colón more we DEMAND, the more we will reclaim. Some may oilseed rape and commercial, non-GM acreage. A swathe of landing on the sandy shores of say that while this critique is valid, its application is around 150 yards of GM oilseed rape crops growing at impractical. But the restrained pragmatism of liberal Teuchathaugh Farm was found lying slashed to the ground. existence itself. reform has only served to dilute revolutionary movements. ‘Go‘Go Farther.Farther. GoGo Reformism has won us only illusory “victories”, while per- May 18, Scotland: Farther. Go Farther.’ manent losses of species diversity and cultural tradition GM Saboteurs Strike Again! ‘We’ll‘We’ll NeverNever LeaveLeave accelerate. High technology civilization has created the FIFE—An inquiry has been launched into the damage to You Alone’.” almost total alienation of modern humanity from the rest GM oilseed rape plants at Wester Friarton Farm in north of nature. Our only hope is to deconstruct the myth of Fife. Anti-genetix militants said the plants had been —Chellis “progress” and modern society’s obsession with scientific rationale and industrial solutions to industrial problems. chopped down in the middle of the night as part of an Glendinning Off the Map The belief that humanity can manage the disintegration of ongoing campaign, in which another farm-scale GM crop the planet’s life support systems by exerting greater control trial at Daviot, Aberdeenshire was damaged the previous upon them, or by reworking their circuitry, is delusional at weekend. This action is the latest setback to Scotland’s best, and suicidal at worst. Industrial civilization is killing GM crop programme, during which the Scottish Executive everything! It’s time to slap ourselves out of our temporary abandoned a farm scale trial at Munlochy, on the Black comfort zone and start fighting the industrial-capitalist future. Isle, following pressure from activists. Summer ‘03 page 23 GREEN ANARCHY #13 “When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless. When I go amongst my people, we do not feel powerless; we feel oppressed. We do not want to make the trade… We must be willing in our lifetime to deal with reality. It’s not revolution; it’s liberation. We want to be free of a value system that’s being imposed upon us. We do not want to participate in that value system. We do not want to change that value system. We want to remove it from our lives forever… We have to assume our responsibilities as power, as individuals, as spirit, as people…” When Worlds Collide! - John Trudell Indigenous & Campesino Resistance

Reprinted below is a powerful nations of earth. They would also fall on our to renouncing our humanness. It is a “NO” Communiqué from the EZLN which was hearts, and thus universalize that fear which for humanity and against neoliberalism. read during the demonstration in Rome, they carry within. This war is against all We would hope that this “NO” would transcend Italy, on February 15, 2003. It was read humanity, against all honest men and women. borders, that it would sneak past customs, that by Heidi Giuliani, the mother of anarchist This war seeks that we should know fear, it would overcome differences of language and Carlo Giuliani, who was assassinated by that we should believe that he who has culture, and that it would unite the honest and the Italian police in Genoa in July of 2001. money and military force also has right. This noble part of humanity, which is also, and it war hopes that we shall shrug our shoulders, must not be forgotten, the majority. Zapatista Army of National that we shall make cynicism a new religion, Because there are negations which unite Liberation. that we shall remain silent, that we shall and dignify. Because there are negations conform, that we shall resign, that we shall which affirm men and women in the best of DISCOVERY OF Mexico, February 15, 2003. surrender...that we shall forget... That we shall themselves, that is, in their dignity. Today Brothers and Sisters of Rebel Italy: forget Carlo Giuliani, the rebel of Genoa. the skies of the world are clouded over with THE NEW WORLD Greetings from the men, women, children and For the Zapatistas, we are the men who dream warplanes, with missiles - which call them- THE NEW WORLD old ones of the Zapatista Army of National our dead. And today our dead are dreaming a selves “intelligent” merely so that they can Liberation. Our word is made cloud in order rebel “NO.”For us there is but one dignified word conceal the stupidity of those who are in The creatures that we met this morning to cross the ocean and to reach the worlds and one conscientious action in the face of this charge of them, and those who, like marveled at our green skins which are in your hearts. We know that today war. The word “NO” and the rebel action. Berlusconi, Blair and Aznar, justify them - and scarlet eyes. demonstrations are being held throughout the That is why we must say “NO” to war. with satellites which point out where there world in order to say “No” to Bush’s war against A “NO” without conditions or excuses. is life and where there will be death. They lack antennae the people of Iraq. And it must be said like A “NO” without half measures. And the land of the earth is tarnished with and can’t be made to grasp that, because it is not a war by the North A “NO” untarnished by gray areas. machines of war which wouldpaint the earth your proclamation that they are with blood and shame. The storm comes. But our lawful food and prey and slaves, dawn shall come only if the words made cloud in order to cross borders is turned into nor can they seem to learn a “NO” made stone, and they make an open- their body-space is needed to materialize ing In the darkness, a crevice through which our oxygen absorbers- tomorrow can slip. which they concieve are breathing Brothers and sisters of rebel and dignified and thinking creatures are breathing Italy: Please accept this “NO” which we, the zapatistas, the smallest, are sending you. at first as angels or (later) as devils Allow our “NO” to unite with yours and with when they are being snuffed out all the “NO’s” which are flourishing today by an absorber swelling throughout the earth. into their space. Viva the rebellion which says “NO!” Their history bled from one this morning Death to death! while we were tasting his brain From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. in holographic rainbows By the Comandancia General of the which we assembled in quite an interesting Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous set of legends- Committee of the that’s all it came to, though American people, nor is it a war against A “NO” with all the colors which paint the world. Zapatista Army of National Liberation. the colors were quite lovely before we Saddam Hussein. It is a war by money, which A “NO” which is clear, categorical, re- Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos is represented by Senor Bush (perhaps In sounding, definitive, Worldwide. Mexico, February of 2003. poured them into our time; order to emphasize that he is completely What is at stake in this war is the the blue shift bleached away lacking in intelligence). And it is against relationship between the Powerful and the February 7, Mexico: meaningless circumstance and they would not fit humanity, whose fate is now at stake on the weak. The powerful is powerful because he EZLN Attempt to Evict Anglo- any of our truth-matrices- soil of Iraq. makes us weak. He lives off our work, off our Imperialists From Chiapas there was, however, This is the war of fear. blood. That is how he grows fat while we languish. The powerful have invoked God at An American couple whose guest ranch in a curious visual echo in their history Its objective is not to defeat Hussein in Iraq. the southern Mexican State of Chiapas has Its goal is not to do away with Al Qaeda. Nor their side in this war, so that we will accept of our own coming to the earth; their power and our weakness as something been blockaded by Zapatista rebels said does it seek to liberate the people of Iraq. it the state government was weighing a certain General Sherman is not justice, nor democracy, nor liberty which that has been established by divine plan. had said concerning a group of them But there is no god behind this war other whether to buy them out to avoid a violent drives this terror. It is fear. Fear that the entire confrontation. The Americans, Glen Wersch exactly what we were saying to you world will refuse to accept a policeman which than the god of money, Nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction. and Ellen Jones, have operated a business about these creatures: tells it what it should do, how it should do it called Rancho Esmeralda as an Eco-tourism and when it should do it. It is fear. The only strength of the weak is their it is our destiny to asterize this planet, dignity. That is what Inspires them to fight resort for eight years. Neighboring rebels Fear that the world will refuse to be have said the land rightfully belongs to local and they will not be asterized, treated like plunder. Fear of that human in order to resist the powerful, in order to so they must be wiped out. rebel. Today there is a “NO” which shall peasants, not foreigners, and have been essence which is called rebellion. Fear that trying to seize it since December 2002. We need their space and oxygen the millions of human beings that are weaken the powerful and strengthen The weak: the “NO” to war. Some might ask which they do not know how to use, mobilizing today throughout the world will April 7, Chile: be victorious in raising the cause of peace. whether the word which has convened so yet they will not give up their gas unforced, Because the victims of those bombs which many throughout the world will be capable of Incendiary Attacks Against Forest and we feel sure, will be launched over Iraqi lands will not preventing the war or, once it has begun, of Company in Mapuche Territory whatever our “agreements” made this morning, only be Iraqi civilians, children, women, men stopping it. On April 7, eight hooded men/women attacked we’ll have to kill them all: and old ones, whose deaths will be merely But the question is not whether we can change the Forest Company “Bosques Arauco”, near an accident in the headlong, arbitrary path the murderous march of the powerful. No. The Collipulli. Forest companies are timber-exploit- the more we cook this orbit, of he who, from his side, calls on God as question we should be asking is could we live ing multinationals which are destroying the the fewer next time round. an alibi for destruction and death. The person with the shame of not having done everything local flora. The “Bosques Arauco” Forest Com- We’ve finished burning all their crops leading this stupidity (which is supported possible to prevent and stop this war? pany has several properties, one of which — and killed their cattle. by Berlusconi in Italy, Blair in England and No honest man or woman can remain of about 685,250 acres — was attacked by They’ll have to come into our pens Aznar in Spain), Senor Bush, used money silent and indifferent at this moment. All of the rebels, who burned 3 trucks and blocked to buy that power which he is trying to hurl us, each one in our own voice, in our own the timber load. The damage to the machinery and then we’ll get to study upon the people of Iraq. Because it must way, in our own language, by our own is estimated at more than 250,000 dollars. In the way our heart attacks and cancers spread among them, not be forgotten that Senor Bush is the head action, must say “NO.” And, if the powerful previous weeks the same property suffered since they seem not immune to these. of the self-proclaimed world police, thanks wish to universalize fear through death and other incendiary attacks. This action seems to If we didn’t have this mission it might be sad to a fraud which was so immense that it destruction, we must universalize the “NO.” be related to the trial against Mapuche to see such helpless creatures die, could only be covered up by the shadows Because the “NO” to this war is also a “NO” indigenous fighters in Angol, charged with of the twin towers in New York, and by the to fear, a “NO” to resignation, a “NO” to “terrorism” because of attacks against com- but never fear, blood of the victims of the terrorist attacks surrender, a “NO” to the forgetting, a “NO” panies which are plundering Mapuche territory. the riches of this place are ours of September 11, 2001. and worth whatever pain others may have to feel. Neither Hussein nor the Iraqi people “We are the people. We have the potential for power. We must not fool ourselves. We We’ll soon have it cleared matter to the North American government. must not mislead ourselves. It takes more than good intentions. It takes commitment. It as in fact it already is, at the poles. What matters to it is demonstrating that takes recognizing that at some point in our lives we are going to have to decide that we it can commit its crimes in any part of the have a way of life that we follow, and we are going to have to live that way of Then we will be safe, and rich, and happy here forever. world, at any moment, and that it can do so life…That is the only solution that there is for us.” with absolute impunity. The bombs, which - John Trudell By Carter Revard are to fall in Iraq, seek also to fall on all the GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 24 Summer ‘03 Destroying the Cages! Animal Liberation Actions

“Eleven years ago I stood in the nation’s largest fur research laboratory at Oregon State University. I wasn’t there to lock down and I certainly wasn’t there to deliver a petition. My warriors and I were there to burn the place to the ground.” — Rod Coronado

This is a translated claim from an Direct action is the only way to affect the April 9-10, Sweden: earlier action received anonymously by fur industry. ALF Liberate Mink the Finnish ALF SG: As the fur farmers should be well aware, ESSUNGA—The following “February 27, 2003. Kalajoki Jäähdyttämö we do not sleep and we will never quit!” press release was sent to the (fur feed supplier). Swedish ALF-Support Group: “On the night night-time ninjas. BASF this is a warning, cut your We placed a generous amount of petrol in Late March, Austria: between 9 and 10 April the cages were opened links with HLS.... We will continue hammering nails three different locations around the building Animal Rights Activists for over 1000 minks at Osttorps fur farm in into HLS’s coffin. There cannot and will not be any which ignited causing over one million euros Attack Circus Vehicles Essunga, Sweden. The farm has over 8000 compromise. Until all are free... ALF” worth of damage to the building. This feed The following communiqué was received anony- minks, but only 1000 were at this place where supplier produced feed for over 65 farms in the area. May 2, England: mously by activists in Austria: “At the end of March the minks were released. Around the farm there It should be of no surprise to anyone why this was a 1.5 meter high metal fence, but the farmer HLS Client’s House & Car business was targeted. Aside from the physical 2003, someone set fire to vehicles of the Austrian National Circus in Klagenfurt, Austria. had left lots of material for us to build things for Attacked and psychological suffering at fur farms, the farmers them to climb over the fence. Animals have the There have been two animal rights arsons HARROW—Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty-UK seek to domesticate these animals for the pur- right to live in freedom for their own sake. Fur pose of maximizing profits and productability. before this fire, both connected to violent at- received anonymously the following demo report: tacks of circus staff on AR protestors. In this third farming and other business with animals and “We visited Sankyo director Balandra in Harrow Wild animals are turned into commodities which their bodies can not go on. We will do only the wealthy elite can afford. fire, a caravan and a transport lorry were in the early hours and painted two cars, slashed destroyed. The damage is said to be 40,000 Euro.” anything so the farmers will collapse economically, the tires on them and threw paint on his house. For the fur industry, from the farmers to the fur shops, and so the minks can feel the ground under their this is business as usual. They have no respect for Until these people stop paying for animals to be April 2, Austria: paws at least one time before they die and for terrified and abused at HLS, we will return to act the animals’ lives, never mind their inherent right to some of them to have a chance in freedom. live wild animals do. This horrifies and angers us. ALF Attacks Hunting Cabins for those that cannot defend themselves. Unseen ‘Rather die now in freedom, then tomorrow by they suffer, unheard they cry. ALF.” Fur farmers claim to care about the animals For The Rich torture and captivity.’ This action was carried they ‘produce’, but the majority of farms fail to The following communiqué was received out by the Swedish ALF in memory of C and B, “If your heart does not break with the follow even the most lax welfare regulations. anonymously by aboveground activists in who knew how it is to change a life in a cage awareness of what is being done to the The botulism poisoning which killed over Austria: “On 2nd April 2003, three hunting cabins to one in freedom. - ALF” world we love, I feel sorry for you, maybe 60,000 foxes last autumn is a good example on stilts beside a golf course at castle Goldegg you’re already dead. But if the death of the of their complete ignorance towards animals’ near Gabersdorf near St. Pölten were burned April 26, England: world we love makes you cry, then take well-being. Instead of ending their suffering down late in the night. The cabins were near those tears and turn them into action. immediately, they left them to suffer for days. to each other, each built on a concrete foun- HLS Client Gets Bricks The Earth gives us not what we need to For these reasons and more we decided to dation with four stilts on top of which were Through Its Windows live so we might simply survive; she gives act directly ourselves instead of waiting platforms and the cabin, which had an oven, a NOTTINGHAM—Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty- us her power so we may fight. Now get out passively for our government to do something sofa, windows and shooting slots. The fire UK received anonymously the following demo there and do something your ancestors and about this (because it is not in the nature of service was called out but could save neither report: “Last night windows were taken out with future descendants will be proud of.” ANY government to value life over profit). of the cabins. The ALF has claimed the action.” bricks at the Nottingham BASF building by the — Rod Coronado

earth will be unsevered. Wings, teeth, claws will no longer humbly defer our presence, for we will be seen for the plundering, murder- The Wild Fight Back! ing, arrogant fools of soft flesh, blunt teeth, “In the cage is the lion. She paces with her Dogs Go Berserk in of the country, said local conservationists. slow limbs that we are — they will attack. memories. Her body is a record of her past. Evidently, a private game capture company You won’t hear them coming though, you’ll As she moves back and forth, one may see it Germany, Attack Cars had rounded up the antelopes at their camp be listening to the latest music, stock quotes, all: the lean frame, the muscular legs, the paw MUNICH—A pack of frenzied dogs attacked near Empangeni to relocate them for a breeding political promise in your air-conditioned, enclosing long sharp claws, the astonishing six parked cars in the Bavarian capital, leaving program. The team was settling in for the night HEPA-filtered, granite-countered tomb — it speed of her response. She was born in this a trail of damaged vehicles in their wake and when a herd of 11 elephants approached. The will be too late. garden. She has never in her life stretched causing panic among residents woken by the herd’s matriarch approached the enclosure When the squirrels and the others have those legs. Never darted farther than twenty disturbances. Police said that the pre-dawn gates and began tampering with the metal finished dehumanizing the land, the trees will yards at a time. Only once did she use her canine attack caused extensive damage to latches holding the gates closed. She care- grow again. They will erupt through the claws. Only once did she feel them sink into the cars parked in the Nymphenburg district. fully undid all the latches with her trunk, swung abandoned asphalt of our roads, spreading flesh. And it was her keeper’s flesh.” the gate open and stood back with her herd. shade, safety, peace. The more timid animals — Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature “At this stage the onlookers realized this was will return to our cities and will marvel at all not a mission for free food, but actually a the work to be done, but it will happen. Cars rescue,” said ecologist Brendon Whittington- will rust, buildings eventually crumble, the Angry Baboons Block Jones. garden in the city will be real at last. Uganda Road EDITORS NOTE: We came across this So, the next time a squirrel approaches you, Baboons “protesting” at the killing of one of particular news item in the Winter 2003 don’t think of a comical beggar, interloper in their group disrupted traffic on the busy Tororo- issue of OFF!, one of the only worthwhile your garden, bulb-consuming spreader of Jinja highway in eastern Uganda. This is the “campus-based” papers being published in disease, for none of these ideas is correct. second time the animals have behaved in such North America. To obtain a sample copy of You are being honored: Act accordingly. a manner on the same road. The trouble began OFF!, write to: OFF!, OCCM Office UUW 209A, OCC/ — Beth Garon after a speeding bus ran over a huge female SUNY Binghampton, Binghampton, NY, 13902 baboon, who died instantly in the Busitema “’Why does she roar?’ they ask. The roaring Forest Reserve, 15 kilometers from the Uganda- A Voice from the Trees must be inside her, they conclude. They Kenya border. Soon afterwards, an infuriated Hail Squirrels! Generous, forgiving re-foresters decide they must see the roaring inside her. group of baboons converged at the scene of of the city, the town, the wilds. Hail for your They approach her in a group, six at her two the killing and surrounded her body. They sat A spokeswoman said the dogs were still on courage while we set our stormtrooper dogs front legs and six at her back two legs. They in the middle on the road for about 30 minutes the loose despite a police search. Local residents upon you, laughing at your “antics” as you are trying to put her to sleep. She swings at causing a temporary traffic jam. A similar said they saw boxer-like dogs biting and rush to safety, missing your warnings: The one of the men. His own blood runs over him. incident happened on this very stretch of the snapping at the cars around 4:30 a.m. trees are disappearing, life is in danger. We ‘Why did she do that?’ the men question. She road late last year, when baboons hurled sticks Bumpers, mudflaps and numberplates were must work now to correct the lack of cool green has no soul, they conclude, she does not know and stones at motorists after a baby baboon all torn off by the canine onslaught. Police lushness for all. right from wrong. ‘We have souls,’ they was knocked over and killed by a vehicle. also found teeth marks on the bodywork and hubcaps of the cars, which were covered in Our heads should bow with shame as we proclaim, ‘we know what is right,’ they blood and saliva from the dogs. “It sounded trap, drown, poison you when all you seek is approach her with their medicine, ‘for you.’ Pig Shoots Butcher Dead like the cars were being broken into,” said a home for your family and seeds for survival She does not understand In Minnesota! Guenther Sailler, a local goldsmith. “It was and for repopulating our wastelands with life, this language. FRAZEE—A man was fatally shot in a bizarre incredible. One of them leaped again and with foliage, with trees. She devours hog-butchering accident, according to the again with unbelievable force into the side They have learned to live among us and try them.” Becker County, Minnesota sheriff’s office. of a car and bit into it like a lunatic.” When daily to remind us of our duties to the planet; — Susan Griffin, Police say that a hog was shot with a .22- the wild animals fight back…we discover that we shoo them away waving arms, hoses, rifles. Woman and Nature caliber rifle by one of the men doing the hog civilization is much more vulnerable then we What will happen when the kind, hopeful butchering on the Arvid-Matson farm near the thought to unrestrained attacks on the squirrels realize that we are not their friends, town of Frazee. The hog initially fell backward technology that is destroying the world. that we are not all working to better our but then jumped forward, knocking the shooter scorched earth? Their warning cries will not down and causing the rifle to discharge. The Resisting Oppression In then be to alert the birds, rabbits, raccoons bullet struck John Matson, 55, of Frazee, who of animal predators, but to warn them of us. died later at a hospital in Fargo. Police ruled South Africa We, in our arrogance, think we control this the shooting an “accident”, probably because The matriarch of a herd of elephants in South pitiful, fragile habitat of ours. When our animal it’s inconceivable to them that the hog might Africa opened a gate with her trunk to free friends turn we will go without electricity, have been fighting for its life. antelopes being held at a camp in the east water, gas; no line or pipe above or below Summer ‘03 page 25 GREEN ANARCHY #13 the term has been mangled by socialists, Official discourse was filled with references fascists, and megalomaniacs. This pamphlet to a “war on the earth”. Wheat was to be sown is available from Kersplebedeb, CP 63560, by “shock attack”. “Victories” were won Reviews CCCP Van Horne, Montreal, Quebec, against flood and drought. Insects, rodents Canada, H3W 3H8, or email: and sparrows were “wiped out”. Military All reviews are written by members of the GA Collective, [email protected] images - discipline, regimentation, attack unless otherwise noted. Send us your zines, pamphlets, and redeployment – represent the didactic newspapers, books, videos, or CDs, for review. Sorry, we have Mao’s War On Nature, by Judith expression of Mao’s war against nature, both literally and metaphorically, as all China came limited space, and must restrict what we review based on our Shapiro (Cambridge University Press) own priorities for each issue. We do accept reviews written to resemble an army in a state of military This long-overdue and painstakingly by others, so send them our way! alert, which facilitated party control and left researched book easily warrants a full-page virtually no room for dissent (critics of Mao’s Anarchism vs. Primitivism this one, and when I wasn’t, I sure as hell review, but lacking the space to do so in this environmental and population policies, like didn’t feel like I was reading anything relevant issue, we’ll try to briefly summarize the key hydraulic engineer Huang Wanli, were and The Inefficiency of to anarchists (or anyone else in the 21st points made in Shapiro’s brilliant critique of Capitalism, by Brian Oliver labeled “rightist” and sent to construction century for that matter). To quote the back cover: “revolutionary” China. One of history’s biggest sites to do hard labor). Sheppard (See Sharp Press) “… this pamphlet tackles the subject lies is that there is any fundamental difference The result of all this? Overextraction of These two recently released pamphlets by (capitalism) head on, on its own turf – between capitalism and communism, when resources; impoverishment of the land’s food- See Sharp Press (SSP) demonstrate why economics – and demolishes the common in reality industrialism and technological bearing capability through intensive farming some of us wish to go even further then the belief that ‘capitalism delivers the goods.’ … “progress” are the shared religion of all modern schemes, reclamation projects that led “post-left” critique, towards an “anti-left”, and through close consideration of the 10 most states, whether those states are democratic, eventually to desertification, and a drastic possibly “post-anarchism” point-of-view. It is inefficiencies of capitalism…(including) fascist, socialist or overt military dictatorships. reshaping of the physical landscape, usually not that we do not fully embrace what some product duplication, cost-shifting, systematic Clobbering nature into submission has united beyond the ability of ecosystems to recover have termed “anarchist principles”, such as unemployment, waste of unsold goods, and North Americans and Europeans, Asians and or adapt. A horrific example of all this is the autonomy, non-hierarchical processes, and the inefficiency of hiearchy…given the labor Africans, communists and republicans, since 1958-60 Great Leap Forward, when the th mutual aid networks. It is precisely because and resources at hand, capitalism is a horribly the dawn of the 20 century, when high-tech demand for fuel for “backyard furnaces” we do value these concepts, that we feel wasteful system that produces a pitifully explosives, heavy machinery, chemical caused massive deforestation and Soviet- anarchism, as it has mostly been played out small amount of useful goods.” Wow! That’s agriculture and mass transportation seemed influenced agricultural practices decimated the historically and in the visions of the radical. This is surely a spoof, but if this is at last to be fulfilling the injunction of land, resulting in the greatest human-created contemporary anarcho-leftist persuasions truly their anarchist vision, I’m outta here. Genesis I:28 to “fill the earth and subdue it”. famine in history. today, has fallen miserably short. Contact: See Sharp Press, P.O. Box In fact, the almost mystical reverence for This book is an excellent case study of Anarchism vs. Primitivism is nothing more 1731, Tucson, AZ 85702 technology reached such a peak in the political, social and environmental domination then a desperate attempt to thwart the former U.S.S.R. that Soviet citizens were leading to a self-destructive rush towards influence of an important strain of anti- The Green Nazi, by J. Sakai naming their children after Henry Ford and ecosystem collapse. How anyone could civilization anarchist thought through Like many important concepts, bio- his tractors. Although (as the historian Douglas associate a psychopath like Mao with manipulation of quotes and texts and the regionalism has been distorted by fascists Weiner has documented) Friedrich Engels “liberation” is unfathomable, but the brutal distortions of primitivist ideas. and authoritarians to rationalize or provoke himself wrote of how nature “avenges” authoritarian left (at least in North America) Sheppard depicts a fascistic post-industrial their horrific agendas. This was certainly true humanity against exploitation, the Eastern continue to glorify him as a “champion of the “primitivist-run” society, complete with special of the blueprint and propaganda of Nazi Bloc kept subjugating and degrading its part people”, which is yet another reason for agents to stamp out any creeping-in of Germany. The Green Nazi is an interesting of the planet until the bitter end, in a mad, anarchists to make a clean and definitive “civilized” thought or activities. This not only look at how the Nazi Party used a bio- power-crazed race with the western industrial break with the Left (this would include refusing seems to neglect the unambiguous (clearly regional perspective, linked with ethnic empires. Yet the efforts of the United States to work with RCP front-groups like “Not In visible to anyone without agenda driven superiority, racial purity, and rational-efficiency and the Soviet Union to “conquer” nature pale Our Name”). The biggest weakness of this motives) anarchist prioritization within to create a “Blood and Soil” mentality with in comparison to the Maoist adversarial book is the liberal “solutions” that Judith primitivism, but also seems to be projecting terrifying consequences. It focuses primarily stance towards the earth, which stands out Shapiro suggests for China’s environmental the underlying quasi-authoritarian nature of on R. Walther Darre, the Minister of Agriculture as perhaps the most extreme case of the crisis in her concluding chapter (public anarchists of the left who wish to maintain or (and simultaneously the first chief of the S.S. modernist conception of humans as distinct deliberation and oversight, “enforceable implement a system which still needs running. Race and Settlement Office) and separate from the web of life. regulatory frameworks”, “rule of law”!). But Also, by labeling all who of the Nazi party, and Few social experiments in history have had overall, this book is a great read, and has a view the mechanisms his ability to enrage the scope and penetration of Chinese state lot to contribute to the growing “anti-Left” socialism. From 1949, when the Chinese or institutions of civili- ficiency and influence the discourse that’s now occurring in the zation as fundamental The Inef rural populace with Communist Party seized power, to 1976, anarchist movement. problems, as “primitiv- of Capitalism his distorted agri- when Mao died, Mao and the communist party sought to reengineer Chinese society ists”, flattens-out and aryan-culture. Quiet Rumours: An sterilizes a very diverse Darre was an by remolding human nature. In-depth studies discourse. This pamphlet influential ideo- of the political repression that took place Anarcha-Feminist Reader, is yet another pathetic logical force within during the Mao era are legion, but less well compiled by the Dark Star known are Mao’s fanatical efforts to reshape attempt to dust off the Nazi Germany, Collective (AK Press) same old tired crap of and considered the natural world; one of the most valuable aspects of Shapiro’s new book is that it’s the Quiet Rumors feels like a refreshing anarcho-syndicalism the Party not breath of fire. These revolutionary murmurs (complete with its dedicated enough first of its kind to examine the relationship between political repression and environmental fill me with hope and encourage me to dream fetishization of technology, to Master Race of transformation. Around the flames we industry, progress, organi- politics. Consid- degradation during the Mao years, exploring a congruence between violence among stand, shoulder to shoulder, warmed by the zation, and the working ering himself a glow of potential. Quiet Rumors combines class) and once again quote “Nordicist”, humans and violence by humans towards the nonhuman world that can be applied to multiple women’s voices to celebrate the a bunch of dead Euro-dudes believing in an destruction/cracking/opening of otherwise in order to demonstrate that imaginary Nordic superior race of tall all power structures and all modern societies. Traditional Chinese philosophy emphasized static monoliths. Digging into various mani- the only anarchism that will be tolerated is blond-haired men that inhabit Scandinavia festations of domination, the collection also one that Bakunin or Kropotkin would approve of. and North Germany, he became the Imperial moderation and adaptation in human relationships with the natural world. But Mao offers a critique of their roles within feminist If the only anarchism relevant to contemporary Peasant Leader (“Reichsbaurenfuhrer”), and and anarchist struggles. Like other members anarchists is one that was firmly cemented cloaked his “racialist class politics in Green Zedong, under the influence of the Soviet Union, took another view: “Man must conquer nature” of revolutionary communities, my first reaction and complete by the early 20th century, populist clothing”. Combining “bio-dynamic” to this book was…“Finally!” As a woman who maybe we need to start defining ourselves organic intensive farming, eugenics-like ethnic [Ren Ding Sheng Tian]. During the Mao era the chooses to take on the labels of in entirely different terms. Sure, as with any distillation, existing class frictions, fascism, anarchist and direction of thought or analysis (i.e. primitivism), and the vision of a neo-tribal Greater Germany effort to conquer nature was highly concentrated feminist, it is there are limitations to consider and legitimate which would “reclaim” its supposed historic difficult to point criticisms and concerns to be discussed, lands, Darre utilized an economic crisis to and oppositional, moti- vated by a drive to to many collec- such as an over-dependency on anthropology turn rural Germany into a breeding ground tions of women’s or the subtle tendencies towards rigidity, but for hate, and provided the Nazis with an army. transform the face of the earth and build a work (besides as far as Anarchism vs. Primitivism goes, The Green Nazi is a very interesting read, wonderful Red there is no constructive value here. It is an but falls somewhat short of its goal to draw socialist “paradise”, and characterized by Emma’s) that obvious smear piece based in zero integrity. many significant connections to contemporary focuses on both As if A vs. P was not vacant enough, we environmentalists, except for a few vague military coercion, mass mobilization anarchism and recently received The Inefficiency of references to present-day Greens and feminism while Capitalism, also by Brian Oliver Sheppard neo-Nazis. It does, however, help shed light and a pathological enormity of scale. also pursuing their (See Sharp Press). If the title does not give on some of the negative historical implications connections. Quiet it away, its main (moronic) thesis is that of bio-regionalism. In no way does this Mao’s philosophy held that through Rumors draws Capitalism’s major flaw is its lack of efficiency! invalidate the bio-regional perspective, in its attention to the ways If only production, distribution, and consumption own terms, but it does offer some cautionary concentrated exertion of human will and in which patriarchy could be organized by anarchists, everything context to how it has been expressed and must be addressed would work out great. A mule, forty acres, how it might get digested given this aspect energy, material conditions could be altered and all within anti-domination and a factory job for everyone (just make sure of its historical legacy. At its core, bio- struggles, and the you’re in the field or at the factory on time). regionalism is about autonomy from difficulties overcome in the struggle to rapidly industrialize China. In concert with the ways in which feminist struggles can learn Sounds liberating, right? It’s hard to even get over-arching human structures and a and benefit from the decentralized power past the cover of this one, with its ridiculous deep connection and understanding to militarization of other aspects of life, Maoist ideology pitted the “people” against the natural structures that anarchism demands. title and an image of disciplined workers the beings and natural patterns of a specific Moving through the book from cover to cover marching in line on a grid under the region. This is a vital aspect to the environment in a fierce struggle. To assist this effort, the power of ideas was unleashed I experienced a non-teleological schooling manager’s whistle and clock to keep it all decentralized and self-organized anarchist of anarcha-feminism. Each piece examined running smoothly. Check it out for yourself, model of living, and to any society wishing through mass propaganda campaigns, often accompanied by the use of military imagery. the deep-rooted connections, divisions, and because I found myself falling asleep reading to live within the web of life, despite how ways in which anarchism and feminism could GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 26 Summer ‘03 learn from and support each other. Each ecocide, genocide, and domestic violence. One of the most challenging aspects of living life as a green listening to the stories and lessons of our One Nation Under is a collection of amazing anarchist in civilization is learning how to put theory into practice radical foremothers, each developing original songs, which go deep into the heart in our communities. I live in one of the most rural areas in the strategies to create revolutionary communities. and shred at the armor of civilization. To eastern US, in the middle of a 800,000 acre state forest, in a However, in all those radical pages I kept quote the liner notes: county with more deer than people, where I‘m constantly waging war against the encroachment of civilization and for the wild. I’d like wondering…where is the Earth in this “This music is not political. This is our life to share a brief description of one campaign we are currently discussion? Why only subtle references and struggle. fighting. (This article recently appeared in my local newspaper.) metaphors? I lift my black AND green flag If you could only look past the billboards, high and exclaim that the omission is a major beyond the concrete storage units “civilized” one. For me, green anarchism draws the people call homes, you would see that there Welcoming the Wapiti important and obvious parallels between are cultures on the verge of extinction. This forms of domination (domination of people is not a page written off the past. This is who are different, who think or live differently, happening at this moment. The Indigenous and the domination of non-human animals/ peoples of the world are still being assimilated, ocean/plants - the list is long and disgusting). colonized, and facing genocide at the hands The parallels between the domination of the of the self-serving governments & multi- Earth and the domination of life are crucial national corporations that put profit over life. to my understanding of anarcha-feminism, Our lives are evidence to these crimes against but an article making this connection explicit, humanity; our every breath is our testimony. is not included within the collection. I feel that This is a call to all people of all walks of life it is important to acknowledge that the scars – our struggles are intertwined. We are all of domination all hurt differently, but that all affected. We are all related, there is no life feels the toxic, sterilized numbing denying that our of civilization. pasts and our Multiple sources of futures are con- “Truth” espouse that nected. We are all we, humans, are not indigenous. We all part of nature – are not have the tools to by Theresa Kintz part of and dependent shape our future. upon our connection We don’t have to “Seven and thirty years have passed since that clear September afternoon when John Decker within the web of life. create or invent, nailed the elk’s skull to his woodshed in the remote little valley bearing his name. Terrible So, my only disap- just remember, winters have come and gone, and the blackened bones and faded horns have been decked out pointment with this acknowledge, with snow, and ice, and frost. Spring, Summer, and Autumn have shed their radiance on the collection was that it and share. Learn melancholy relics, but the black sockets bespeak not a questioning. But at night, Winter or did not include a fiery all you can, Summer, there comes a mysterious night-wind to the place, and a soft tap, tap, tap sways the article making these question all you mouldering skull nailed there against the shed. connections, which I can, understand, Is it the soul of the last elk still traveling to the unknown country, where he will find his see as very central to and stand up race unsullied, his beautiful mate to greet him? anarcha-feminism, more for what you Or is it the spirit of the wilderness, blotted out by man never to return, while our race explicit. believe. We lives, whispering of better and freer days, of vast distances and open places of beauty, Overall, I think Quiet must see past justice, and truth, which were banished with that last elk?” Rumors is an incredibly our differences. We must communicate, (From the story John Decker’s Elk, by Henry Shoemaker, in Black Forest important read, whether one identifies as an learn to respect one another, and work Souvenirs Collected in Northern Pennsylvania, originally published 1914, anarchist and/or a feminist or not. The together. Our liberation is the process of reprinted by Gateway Press, 1991) commentary on “structureless” groups, and defining what freedom is to us. The streets the warnings given about their ability to are our stage. You have the power to create re-create dominating power dynamics, was change. Free the future. You are our hope.” Shoemaker’s romantic saga recounts the demise of the last elk somewhere around especially insightful (but begs for a current For more info, contact Blackfire, P.O. Box Sinnamahoning in the mid-1800’s. His words are poignant and affective as he identifies the response). For me, the collection as a whole, 1492, Flagstaff, AZ 86002 demise of the elk with the demise of a time in Pennsylvania history he describes as better stimulated self-reflection and a deeper or check-out: www.blackfire.net and freer days, of vast distances and open places of beauty, justice, and truth. social/cultural critique, while offering a source The spirit of the wilderness he speaks of is still well-known and strongly felt by many of of inspiration. Although I was disappointed The Cruise, staring Timothy us living here in Western Clinton County. To us, the reintroduction of the elk offers an that the Earth was not more of a focus, I still opportunity to recover something that was lost. “Speed” Levitch (Produced and feel that the use of accessible language and There are many here who want to welcome back the Wapiti (the traditional Native American poignant artwork proved to be provoking Directed by Bennett Miller) name for the elk). Now it is time for those of us who cherish these magnificent animals, who after the last page. After tapping into this I consider Hollywood to be up there with appreciate their elegance and admire their majesty, who want to see the elk race and the passionate, smoldering collection I felt like I the church and the state, as far as institutions people race living side by side once again to speak out in defense of the wild, in defense of had tasted lightning! Quiet Rumors offers of control within modern civilization, yet even beauty, justice, and truth. lessons from the transitional fire of the despite the techno-alienation involved, I must The Eastern elk once ranged from New York to central Georgia, but colonization and phoenix, and from the lessons of the women admit, I am drawn to film as one of the most exploitation by European settlers eventually led to the species’ extinction in our region. provocative and emotional modes of who have come before us – each whispering Within the past few years, descendants of elk reintroduced into adjacent counties in 1913 expression in our time. I have come to radical notions of revolutionary potential. have made their way into our area. Since then, a vocal minority purporting to reflect local Asking for the conversation to be continued… appreciate the independent and radical film sentiment has come out vehemently anti-elk, using property-rights arguments, thinking only So, I would add, that Cathy Levine was genre, and seek out poetic and meaningful of their own self-interests as property owners. right when she said that, “for anyone who films like The Waking Life, Hate, Where The has ever considered the possibility that Green Ants Dream, and even those from the What about the rest of us who call Western Clinton County our home too? We have a masturbation might provide more benefits cesspool of southern California like 12 Monkeys, responsibility to speak out on behalf of welcoming the elk to our region; it is their only hope than madness a study of anarchy is highly in an attempt to connect to a larger creativity for a safe future in the wild. recommended.” It is just that feminists help and expression of the world we live in. That The elk embody the needs of the natural world: being large-ranging megafauna, the elk us find the right spot! is why I can’t believe it took me so long to require vast expanses of natural habitat to be preserved, and in so doing we preserve habitat - Rose Marie find such a gem! Made in 1998, this beautifully for all other species, flora and fauna alike. Restoring them and other wildlife entails facing produced black-and-white film takes us on significant challenges. Increasing human awareness and understanding of the elk and the Available from A.K. Press, $15 an unforgettable ride, through the concrete or in a pamphlet form made by Agitation complex relationship, both psychological and ecological, between other species and Press from about half of the book, canyons of Manhattan, with Timothy “Speed” ourselves will benefit elk and humans alike. available for $3 from P.O. Box 11331, Levitch as our tour guide. Aboard Gray Line In welcoming the elk we meet the challenge of repairing our relationship with nature. The Eugene, OR 97440 Tours’ double-decker buses, Speed shows future of elk, and in a larger sense the wild, depends on willingness to change. What we off his beloved (yet tormenting) city while need is a new and deeper understanding and appreciation of elk and the value of all wild divulging in an orgy of trivial facts and caustic One Nation Under, by Blackfire things. What we need is an ethic that defines conservation as a state of harmony between philosophies. From his desire to “blow-up the people, land, and wildlife within a North American culture growing ever more distant from We got this refreshing and energetic CD grid plan” and all it represents and perpetuates, the land. when Blackfire played at a benefit in to his erotic architectural analysis, to his Our intention is to fight for welcoming the Wapiti. Our dream for the future is to see a day Eugene for various indigenous and prisoner bitterly sarcastic and insightful rantings, support groups. Their performance followed Tim will not bore you for a moment. He is when elk and all wildlife will be given the wild habitat they need and the respect that will an animated and provocative speech on passionate and sincere, and sometimes just allow them to live here. Our mission in short is to propagate the idea so eloquently voiced by prison, colonization, and the war-machine by plain blunt, as he uses a kaleidoscope of Thoreau: “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Dacajeweiah “Splitting the Sky” Hill, a native vocabulary to express the contradictions and warrior and veteran of the Attica Prison and potentials of life within New York City. This Gustafsen Lake rebellions. After Splitting the film is much more than a bus ride past Please join us. Sky’s articulated rage, we felt the night had architectural and cultural landmarks, the tour reached its peak, but most in attendance had loop is part of an ongoing search for perfection (FYI - The elk range no idea what Blackfire had in store for them. as Speed attempts to “rewrite the souls” of of Western Clinton They rocked. They engaged. They inspired. the riders. The Village Voice calls Levitch, Blackfire is made up of three siblings, from “The guy Woody Allen can only dream of County, PA, is the the Todich ‘ii’nii clan of the Dine’ Nation being.” Both a hilarious adventure and a site of the upcoming (navajo), born into the heart of the political voyage of the soul, The Cruise is ultimately GA gathering orga- land disputed area on Black Mesa. They the unending and perplexing search for combine a high-energy metally-punk sound worthwhile possibilities in the complex and nized by the Black with their traditional Dine’ culture, and strong confusing reality of modernity and civilization. and Green Network, sociopolitical messages about governmental A must see! Available at even the most July 10-13, 2003) oppression, relocation of indigenous people, crappy of video stores. Summer ‘03 page 27 GREEN ANARCHY #13 Green Amazon Economics 101 Feminist Health and Abundance Versus Capitalist Scarcity and Despair You can’t always get what you want... necessarily be reproduced.” (2) Bookchin, in a similar vein, place, patriarchal-capitalist relations are established by force. suggests that the reality of scarcity has been practically The problems that inevitably result, if they are recognized at One wonders how often this Rolling Stones song verse is quoted eliminated since the time of Marx, and that its appearance only all, are merely “externalities.” These sorts of contradictions by economics professors when relating the first law of the macro- persists due to capitalist forces. “A century ago, scarcity had are only compounded when the colonial mind attempts to economic model. That is, resources are scarce relative to human to be endured; today, it has to be enforced — hence the importance solve the problems its practices have themselves created desires or needs. Often the problem is posed in two parts: of the state in the present era.” (3) (i.e. with “modernizing technologies”). What seems to appear continuously throughout discussions 1. Our material wants are virtually unlimited or insatiable. of scarcity, from macroeconomics textbooks to socialist or Population 2. Economic resources are limited or scarce. (1) anarchist philosophy, is a persistent dualistic pattern of thought Nowhere are discussions around scarcity more poignant for Therefore from the beginning of the course we are asked to that enriches one aspect and impoverishes the other. Therefore ecofeminists and green anarchists than within the debates agree with a number of assumptions that go largely unexamined. human desires are abundant, non-human resources are scarce. around overpopulation. Interwoven into this single issue are a We must assume that humans are fundamentally creatures of Human technology produces abundance, whereas pre-technology multiplicity of discourses about capitalism, women’s rights and unlimited desire. Since this “law” precludes any economic model, societies are, by definition, impoverished. Dualistic thinking knowledges, the well-being of the environment, and the future then the usual picture presented is that “primitive” societies were has long been criticized by feminists who first recognized a of all humanity. Since Malthus first brought this issue to the generally composed of unhappy individuals. relationship between the domination of nature by man, and world’s attention in his 1798 Essay on Population, those on More subtly, the picture presented is one in which a thick woman by man. As Maria Mies argues, “capitalist patriarchy the right and the left have been asking: Is there enough for all line is drawn separating two universes. One contains humans or ‘modern’ civilization is based on a cosmology and anthropology of us? Will there always be enough? with their unlimited desires, and the other contains scarce that structurally dichotomizes reality, and hierarchically Not surprisingly, women’s bodies have become the ground upon material reality, which includes everything from miner- which these battles are fought. Carol Merchant identifies just als to plant life, to other non-human animals. The “problem” a few of the more incendiary sites in recent years: of economics, then, is how we humans are to get as much “In rural China, an attempt to reduce population by a as we possibly can out of this impoverished external government policy of limiting families to one child world, as well as how to make choices about what we resulted in the widespread abortion of female fetuses, may produce or consume. brought about by an age-old agrarian preference for male Scarcity is an extraordinarily difficult subject to labor. In India, Indira Gandhi’s policy of pressuring discuss in any general terms. After all, when we talk about sterilization of government employees after three offspring limitation, the meanings shift drastically from one case produced a backlash against its family planning program. to the next. Certainly there is a finite supply of fossil fuel In the United States, a woman’s right to choose to abort a in the world. This is not because the Earth cannot or will fetus versus the right of the fetus to life has become a not produce more, but simply because the time it takes major political issue in all elections, and in the presidential for organic material to convert into usable fuel far appointments to the Supreme Court.” (6) out-spans the scope of human life. Therefore, it is reasonable to imagine that we are using up this resource Population growth is often framed as the single cause faster than it can be renewed. Sand or rocks, however, of all environmental problems. The latest report by the could probably never be considered a scarce resource — United Nations Fund for Population Action (UNFPA), materials such as these are in obvious abundance. The The State of the World Population 1990, states: discussion becomes more complicated when we discuss different localities. A resource could be absolutely abundant “For any given type of technology, for any given level of in terms of the planet — salt, for example — but scarce in a opposes the two parts to each other: the one always considered consumption or waste, for any given level of poverty or inequality, the particular region at a certain point in time. The causes of such superior, always thriving, and progressing at the expense of more people there are the greater the impact on the environment.” (7) “artificial scarcities” may be political, environmental or otherwise. the other. Thus, nature is subordinated to man; woman to man; consumption to production; and the local to the global, Again, the familiar dichotomy appears. The picture presented What needs to be examined is not whether “resources in is a mechanistic one in which the capacity for human general” are or are not scarce. Clearly this question would be and so on.” (4) On the other hand, there is little doubt that the current reproduction is presumed to be limitless, and the resources of too broad or contradictory to be of any use. Instead, we shall the non-human environment are finite. Despite the obvious explore the notion of “scarcity in general” as a basic cultural relationship of humans to the environment, particularly in industrial or post-industrial societies, is unsustainable in the internal contractions in the above statement, a simple formula orientation indicative of Western, capitalist societies. I will is derived. More humans = less environment. Differences in argue that “scarcity” is the dominant myth that spans not only long term. That is, even if nature is not “naturally” scarce, it may soon become so. An important point, however, is that from ecological consciousness, patterns of consumption and the thoughts about economics, but practically all facets of life. It presence of domination are all dismissed as factors completely is employed by all power-interested groups in capitalist societies, the perspective of “civilization,” scarcity is not something that results from the disruption of organic systems. Instead, unrelated to the state of the non-human environment. both the right and the left. Nowhere is this more clear than in Much of the energy that would be discussions about overpopulation, environmentalism and the scarcity is a pre-existent reality. Scarcity is a natural absence to be committed to lessening high-income “state of the world.” Drawing upon ecofeminist writings, I will countries’ “ecological footprint,” then, attempt to demonstrate the ways in which discourse around filled, a wild state to be conquered. Scarcity is what comes before the is instead devoted to lessening the “scarcity” serve to reinforce dominant notions of a definitive quantitative increase of population chasm between humans and nature, an assumption that is technological state, never a result of it. This may help explain why current growth. This means, then, that low- implicated with and parallels the various forms of oppression income countries become a target, and in the emerging global society. Finally, I will attempt to draw a models of capitalist development seem fundamentally blind to within those countries, women in distinction between scarcity and risk, as explored by various particular. The real results of these anthropologists studying hunter-gatherer societies. I will ecological concerns. In terms of eco- nomic indicators, only the measurable policies have been consistently argue that risk/risk management is a cross-cultural, cross-special harmful to women’s bodies. Most condition, while scarcity, as it is understood in economic and can be considered wealth. Ironically, it is only when resources become contraceptives produced in the global political models, is a unique manifestation of capitalist relations. South have continued to have The aim here is manifold. By using ecofeminist sources to scarce that they become measurable. As Vandana Shiva observes, “the detrimental or destructive side effects. analyze an issue with which green anarchists are deeply Forced or secretive sterilization concerned, I am attempting to forge a link between these two conventional paradigm of development perceives poverty only in terms of an programs for women have been wide- traditions. More specifically, I wish to address in a concrete spread. In India and Bangladesh, way the utter failure of anarchists (in general) to make their absence of Western consumption patterns, or in terms of cash incomes women have been used as test subjects, critique relevant to feminism, on the one hand, and to demonstrate without their knowledge, of experi- the relevance of feminism to anarchists, on the other. Many of and is therefore unable to grapple with self-provisioning economies, or mental hormonal contraceptives. The the critical concerns of green anarchists, such as the population most disturbing aspect is that many of debate in regards to post/pre-civilizational society, are currently to include the poverty created by their destruction through development. (5) these programs have been promoted being addressed by ecofeminists in ways that green anarchists using the marketing rhetoric of would do well to take notice. She continues by drawing a distinction between “poverty as subsistence and “reproductive freedom” taken from Scarcity and Wealth poverty as deprivation.” In terms of women’s rights movements in the capitalist indicators, a fully self- global North. (8) Conceptions of “primitive” societies have always been central sustaining hunter-gatherer society, whose inhabitants enjoy One of the more provocative and progressive approaches to civilization’s understanding of itself. Given that the structures fewer work hours and greater leisure time than most to the population debate was suggested by Paul and Ann of any society based on technology and complex networks of Americans, would be designated as impoverished; while these Ehrlich in The Population Explosion (1990). They argued control must constantly be maintained, the question “why is same individuals, displaced from their land and forced into that reduced population depends primarily upon five factors: this better?” must always be answered. It seems that everyone urban wage-slavery, would become “wealthier” in capitalist adequate nutrition, proper sanitation, basic health care, from Adam Smith to Karl Marx to, most recently, Murray terms even if their overall quality of life diminished. education of women, and equal rights of women. (9) Bookchin, agrees with the timeless “truth” expounded by In a similar way, the colonial mind tends to see all the Although the general point they are making may be Hobbes that in the “state of nature” life was “nasty, brutish diversity of a rich and thriving ecosystem as merely a blank extremely helpful, one could argue that this theory still and short.” Pre-civilization societies were marked, first and slate upon which civilization may constitute anew. All the invites a form of cultural imperialism whereby high foremost, by lack. Without the existence of productive forces, local knowledges, practices, rhythms and life processes are income countries provide the model for what constitutes Marx argues, “only want is made general, and with want the diminished as “primitive” or “unproductive,” and in their “education” or “equal rights.” struggle for necessities and all the old filthy business would GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 28 Summer ‘03 Nonetheless, the basic idea behind their argument may lead In fact, this conclusion concurs with the findings of several images. While we may despise, fear or dismiss the workings to some fruitful grounds for debate. The theory suggests that a other anthropologists studying in the field of risk and uncertainty. of the natural world, we as humans still depend upon it non-dominating society, which nurtures choice and knowledge The shortages that inevitably appear in the organic rhythms of because we are still, in reality, a part of nature. It is the notion for every member, will also be one that is in harmony with its any ecosystem do not necessarily, as they seem to in our own of our separation that allows us to perceive “scarcity” as our natural environment. This makes particular sense in the culture, result in vast disparities of wealth or power. On the general orientation to the natural world. What could be more context of women’s autonomy, for many ecofeminist writers contrary, these sorts of scarcities are merely a part of the “risky frightening than the prospect that nature will fail us, that at have drawn a strong link between women’s consciousness and business of life,” which all species share. any moment its wild, random the conditions of the non-human, natural world. These writers Instead of fracturing societies, these sorts workings will not provide enough “recognize that the impact of the degradation of the environ- of uncertainties solidify the organic ties to sustain us? In response to this ment affects women in a different way, because as women they within the community and encourage a fear, humans have developed are part of the same ecosystem that is dominated and exploited strategy of collective, rather than everything from agriculture, to irrationally.” Writing about Central America, Mercedes individual, survival. pasteurization, to refrigeration, to Canas reveals: It is essential, then, that a distinction hormones, to genetic modifications. is drawn between risk and scarcity. Risk All of these developments in “In the rural areas... women fetch and use water for the house- is a timeless experience that flows from technology are centered about a hold, and women gather the wood for heating and cooking. the inherent uncertainty of all life, and fear of scarcity, that nature left to Women, therefore, are the most affected by the deterioration of shared by all species. While this ever- its own wild ways may not water systems and tree conservation.” (10) present risk does not always lead to provide enough. One may argue convincingly, then, that women do not actively cooperative, collective survival strategies, Returning to the Rolling Stones participate in the destruction of the environment in any way neither does it necessarily lead to the verse, we find that we certainly comparable to the practices of multinational corporations form of competitive, dominating society cannot get everything we want, (which tend to be headed by men of the first world). Nonetheless, that capitalist-patriarchal discourses but we are all interdependently women disproportionately experience the effects of that around scarcity would lead us to connected in a world that is destruction. It makes sense, then, that given choices over their believe. In fact, scarcity as it appears capable of providing all we own reproduction, women have both the knowledge and in the capitalist model, and counter need. The process of realizing this understanding necessary to determine the rate of population posed by ecological critiques, is an interdependence will be a slow growth appropriate to a given locality. Maria Mies and Vandana entirely other principle. Scarcity is at one indeed, but it can begin by Shiva, developing a “new ecology of reproduction,” encourage once the devaluation of all non-human, affirming the local knowledge an ecofeminist perspective, which is: non-male life characteristic of capitalist- where this understanding is patriarchal relations, and its critique: the already present — i.e. indigenous “...not to look at reproduction in isolation, but to see it in the artificial shortages that directly result communities. In a patriarchal- light of men-women relations, the sexual division of labor, from this systematic devaluation. capitalist society that only sexual relations, and the overall economic, political and Therefore, it may be said that while risk is simply a part of recognizes the knowledge produced in laboratories and libraries, social situation, all of which, at present, are influenced by life, scarcity as we understand it is a direct result of our current the obstacles are formidable indeed. The fact that these patriarchal and capitalist ideology and practice. Therefore a economic and social relations. realizations are being made at all, however, both within primary demand is that women regain greater autonomy with ecofeminism and green anarchism, is our first glimmer of hope. regard to their sexuality and procreative practices.” (11) Hope Ultimately we may discover that our capacity to nurture this Ecofeminists throughout the world and across cultures have hope is inextricably linked with our chances to live peacefully, Risk and Scarcity drawn the world’s attention to the worst behaviors and humans and all life, on this great whole planet Earth. While capitalist-patriarchal institutions tend to produce or patterns of thought endemic of Western capitalist-patriarchal exacerbate environmental scarcities through their conceptual culture. Interestingly enough, these writers seem to be the same ReferencesReferences: understandings of “wealth” or “development,” it would be naive ones who offer the most hope for a non-dominating, sustainable (1) Ed. Paul Wonnacott & Ronald Wonnacott. An Introduction to Macro- to suggest that all such difficulties flow from these forces. future in which all humans can co-exist peacefully and economics. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1986. (2) Karl Marx. German Ideology. New World, p. 24. After all, not all floods are the result of World Bank dam meaningfully with the natural world that surrounds them. (3) Murray Bookchin. Post-Scarcity Anarchism. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 59. projects, nor are all famines caused by the deforestation practices Most ecofeminists agree with green anarchists that, in order (4) Maria Mies & Vandana Shiva. Ecofeminism. London: Zed Books. 1993. 5. of timber or meat industries. Hunter-gatherer communities of to preserve our own lives on this planet and the lives that (5) Shiva, Ecofeminism, 72. the past and present have been forced to deal with all manner surround us, we must cease the destructive practices that (6) Carol Merchant, Radical Ecology, New York: Routledge, 1992, 31-31. (7) From Mies & Shiva, “People or Population: Towards a New Ecology of local scarcities resulting from natural disasters or the result directly from certain ways of thinking, and particular of Reproduction,” 277-278. unavailability of certain dietary necessities, even where inter- habits of thought. Therefore, it is the responsibility of each (8) Mies & Shiva, Ecofeminism, 288-293. action with capitalist-patriarchal structures was minimal or nil. and every human to uncover the ways in which patriarchal- (9) From Carol Merchant, Radical Ecology, 32. Much work has been done to study the strategies by which (10) Mercedes Canas, “In Us Life Grows,” from Women Healing Earth. capitalist forms of domination, or hierarchical thinking, are (11) Vandana Shiva & Maria Mies, 293-294. hunter-gatherer societies manage risk or uncertainty resulting reproduced in our own daily lives. Charlene Spretnak provides (12) Raymond Hames, “Sharing Among the Yanomamo,” from Risk and from the organic rhythms of their natural environment. One one path in her discussions of radical nonduality, which she Uncertainty in Tribal and Peasant Economies. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. such study was conducted by Raymond Hames, who conducted describes as “a dynamic system of relations wherein any (13) Hames, 104. a study of the Yanomamo Indians of southern Venezuela and (14) Unidad Ecologia Salvadorena, “Propuesta del Cerro Verde,” San Salvador, particular manifestation functions simultaneously as a distinct Junio, 1990. northern Brazil. (12) Hames employed various forms of part and the unbroken whole.” (15) From Ed. Karen Warren, Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature. quantitative analysis to study the adaptive procedures by which Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. this society managed a local protein deficiency that could only “The parts are not derivative of the whole, nor vice versa. Each (16) From Ed. Greta Gaard, Ecofeminism. Philadelphia: Temple Univer- be supplemented by the hunting of small or large game. Since aspect constitutes the other. Metaphors of a web or a net are often sity Press, 1993. hunting was considered a “high-risk” used by nondualists, but they seem to me activity, with heavy variance in yield not quite dynamic enough to convey the The Expansion of the Machine from one day to the next, Hames subtle processes of wholeness and diversity, expected to find the most developed of nonduality and particularity.” (15) Fragment 13 adaptive behavior to be centered In practical terms, this means that from “the Garden of Peculiarities” around these activities. distinction between man and woman, Colonization has been nothing more than the Hames suggested that there were humans and nature, or even self or other expansion of capital and technological thinking three possible adaptations to a limited are allowed to break down, or at least through the culture of standardization on a world- availability of protein resources. The change meaning. While the constitutive wide scale. This practice reached its apex with first was the storage of surplus by wholeness of each individual part is European expansion. From the beginning of the individual members of the community. preserved, all whole parts are also 20th Century it unleashed its destructive power This practice, however, was rarely understood as part of a still larger whole. with the appearance of imperialism: the oligopolic employed due to the high costs of In this way, individuals should become phase of capitalism. This isn’t, however, a phenomenon tied exclusively to nation and ethnicity building (at maintaining the meat for more than more receptive to sharing and reciprocity, least not in this stage of so-called “globalization”). a couple of days. These costs both within a community as well as in included the large amounts of fire- For the first time in recorded or remembered history communion with the Earth. Furthermore, a single group of individuals controls on a wood needed to smoke the meat, as radical nondualistic thinking would well as the energy expended in transnational scale a worldwide machine capable discourage the practices of capitalist- of annihilating the planet and extinguishing the life protecting the meat from other life patriarchal institutions, which not only of many of its creatures, among them, human beings. forms (human or otherwise). The marginalize women within androcentric This colonial stage has a monetary drive whose second possibility was to expand the societies, but also divide woman from basis is ideological. Capital needs to standardize breadth of diet intake, and to include her own body, alienating her from her lifestyles, cultural values, architecture, language, lower-ranked game species in the hunting practice. This was own reproductive organs. landscape, thinking, etc. It looks to, in sum, make seen as inefficient in the long term, however, due to the extra Dualistic thinking has itself provided the sense of lack, of uniform the perception of reality, thus assuring its time required to hunt game that provided little protein. The scarcity and of a separation between ourselves and nature. own permanent expansion. Its ideological foundation, which rationalizes conquest as an index of growth, third possibility was to increase sharing practices among hunters, Economics steps in to fill the artificial scarcity and of a such that the day-to-day variance of hunting yields would be assigns a positive value to the expansionist drive. separation between ourselves and nature. Economics steps Growth for growth’s sake, invading to invade, and alleviated by an equitable distribution throughout the community. in to fill the artificial scarcity that results from a society His findings indicated that this third option was the one eternal expansion are the axes that form the rationale ordered around the division between “nature” and “civilization”. for expansion. They also constitute the logic of capital, practiced most frequently by the Yanomamo Indians. In “From Heroic to Holistic Ethics: The Ecofeminist Challenge,” which grows and spreads until it consumes and “It is clear that risk has some utility in explaining Marti Kheel discusses the two symbolizations that have destroys all of those host organisms that allow and variation in scope and frequency of exchange among the traditionally been used in Western culture to describe the non- shelter life on the planet. Expansion is, without Yanomamo Indians. Sharing is an adaptive mechanism to human world (or “nature”.) (16) Either nature is a beast to be doubt, the ideology of cancer, which will not stop until it reaches an implacable metastasis. reduce the variance in consumption of wild and cultivated destroyed or subdued, or nature is an inanimate lifeless matter. resources.” (13) The myth of scarcity functions alongside both of these by Jesús Sepúlveda Summer ‘03 page 29 GREEN ANARCHY #13 TheTheThe DoctorDoctorDoctor isisis Sick:Sick:Sick: Schizophrenia, Anti-psychiatry & Anarchism by David James

They are playing a game. He describes the agony of what is labeled a “schizophrenic damage. More than fifty percent of people treated with them They are playing at not playing a game. break”: “His body: this place of rage, terror, desire and (the newer drugs cause less, but inflict more tardive psychosis, If I show them I see they are, despair. This place of life, which is too harrowing and too or damage to the higher regions of the brain) develop a horrible fraught with too many conflicts and contradictions that entangle disease called tardive dyskinesia, which causes twitches and I break the rules and they will punish me. him, that he cannot resolve or transcend. What does he do? He spasms of the face, mouth, tongue, neck, shoulders, back, arms, I must play their game, withdraws from his body. He dissociates legs, hands and feet. Of not seeing I see the game. himself from it. He refuses to be it, live (American Psychiatric —R.D. Laing, M.D. Knots, 1974 it, inhabit it, permeate it with himself.” Association, 1992; Breggin, Antipsychiatry psychiatrist No one is arguing that “schizophrenia” 1983; 1990; 1991). The Our greatest gifts come to us by way of madness. is in no way biological. But drawing a muscles of respiration and correlation between biology and speech can also be impaired. —Plato (Phaedrus) “schizophrenic” behaviors in no way Other closely related, One of the issues many anarchists seem reluctant to talk about, makes such behaviors meaningless. If untreatable neurological is mental health, and how psychiatry does some of the dirtiest you examine these behaviors phenom- disorders include tardive work in keeping this horrible oppressive system going. enologically, they can be understood as akathisia (painful feelings of Psychiatric survivors face oppression even within anarchist an individual’s attempt to contend with inner tension and anxiety circles and scenes. People who have emotional problems or her frightening existential condition, and a compulsive drive to different levels of consciousness about their lives are called perched in a horrifying age trapped in move the body). Tardive wingnuts and ostracized. People labeled “schizophrenic” who the death throes of a murderous global dystonia involves muscle stop taking their medication at the Rainbow Gathering (or civilization. If everyone who becomes spasms, frequently of the almost anywhere else for that matter) are not usually shown aware of the true nature of the horrifying face, neck and shoulders, support and respect for their decision. CALM (The Center for times in which we live is diagnosed and it too can be disfiguring, Alternative Living Medicine) often sends such people from the schizophrenic, drugged, and institution- disabling and agonizing. National Gatherings every year to local psychiatric wards, where alized, it will certainly imperil any sort of conscious evolution There are no accurate surveys of the total number of people they experience something a lot different than peace and love. towards a wild, free, sustainable human society. afflicted with tardive dyskinesia. There are probably a million It’s called involuntary psychiatric In his book The Politics of or more tardive dyskinesia patients in the United States today, treatment. And it is not acceptable. Experience, Laing argues that in his and tens of millions have been afflicted throughout the world The DSM-IV (the diagnostic guide most Nobody deserves to be forced to take using the term “schizophrenia,” he since the inception of neuroleptic treatment. Long-term psychiatrists use) classifies schizophrenia as the psychiatric drugs against their will, is not referring to any condition that neuroleptic use is associated with both cognitive deterioration following: Two or more of the following, each or to be given electroshock without he supposes to be mental rather than and atrophy of the brain. Those who defend neuroleptic use present for a significant portion of time during consent, or to be locked up in any physical, or to an illness, but to a claim that schizophrenia itself causes this degeneration. They a one-month period: kind of fucking cage. label that some people pin on other are wrong. More than 100 years of autopsied brain studies of A. Delusions; hallucinations; disorganized In this article, I’m going to focus people under certain social persons labeled as schizophrenic failed to show any such damage, speech (e.g., frequent derailment or incoherence); on schizophrenia. What is “schizo- circumstances. The “cause” of until the recent advent of neuroleptics. That’s not the worst of it. grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior; phrenia,” exactly? The Greek “schizophrenia” is to be found by In a few people the neuroleptic reaction goes massively out of negative symptoms (i.e., affective flattening, etymology means “broken soul” or the examination, not of the control, causing neuroleptic malignant syndrome, an acute alogia, or avolition). “broken heart.” According to the prospective diagnosis alone, but inflammation of the brain comparable to lethargic encephalitis, Only one Criterion A symptom is required if World Health Organization, 58-116 the whole social context in which which can be fatal. delusions are bizarre or hallucinations consist million people around the world the “psychiatric ceremony” is being How do neuroleptics “work”? They suppress the transmission of a voice keeping up a running commentary on today have experienced an “acute conducted. of dopamine in the brain. Frontal lobe activity is also suppressed the person’s behavior or thoughts, or two or more schizophrenic break syndrome.” He continues, saying that, in — the effect is that of a chemical lobotomy. The victim becomes voices conversing with each other. Many describe falling into a kind of effect, there is no such “condition” weak and tired. Their will is crushed; they become passive and B. Social/occupational dysfunction: Since the abyss of isolation. This happens as “schizophrenia,” but the label is docile. They become more “manageable” and complain less. onset of the disturbance, one or more major because there is a huge discrepancy a social fact and the social fact is a There is no proof that neuroleptics have any effect on areas of functioning, such as work, interpersonal between the subjective inner world political event. so-called psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations and relations, or self-care, are markedly below the that they’ve been swept into, and the In Victor Barbetti’s essay delusions. The neuroleptics mainly suppress outrage, rebelliousness, level previously achieved. mundane everyday world outside. “Classification and the Treatment and spontaneous activity in general. This is why they are C. Duration: Continuous signs of the disturbance There seems to be a total gulf of the Patient,” he critiques the system effective and employed whenever and wherever social control persist for at least six months. This six-month between these two. This is exactly of classification, saying: is desired: in mental hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, period must include at least one month of symptoms what happens in our society: the “In classification we seek to institutions, clinics, and political detention camps. This wide- (or less if successfully treated) that meet individuals around such a person concentrate or group data according spread use makes the claim that they are specific for “schizo- Criterion A. have absolutely no trust in what is to similarities. In caring for another phrenia” ridiculous. (They are even used in veterinary D. Exclusion of schizoaffective disorder and going on! So everything is set up person, we seek to open up a world medicine to subdue animals.) mood disorder with psychotic features. negatively, and this gives rise to fear that is already too constricted and Controlled studies by Loren Mosher have shown that those E.. Substance/general medical condition and misunderstandings on both sides. indifferent to their individuality. diagnosed with acute schizophrenia improve better without exclusion: the disturbance is not due to the With one we sharpen our focus and medication by living in a home-like setting (if not a home) “It seems that without exception the direct physiological effects of a substance induce structures; with “non-professional” people experience and behavior that gets (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general with the other, we who know how to listen and to labeled “schizophrenic” is a special medical condition. look for freedom care. They become more autonomous, strategy that a person invents in order F. Relationship to a pervasive developmental where it appears there and do not get tardive dyskinesia or to live in an unlivable situation. In disorder: If there is a history of autistic disorder is little or none.” neuroleptic malignant syndrome. his life situation, the person has or another pervasive development disorder, the He goes on: There’s no convincing evidence come to feel that his is an untenable diagnosis of schizophrenia is made only if “Classification that schizophrenia is a biochemical position. He cannot make a move, prominent delusions or hallucinations are also systems such as disorder. The only biochemical or make no move, without being beset present for at least a month (or less if successfully DSM are the products imbalances proven to exist in the by contradictory and paradoxical treated). pressures and demands, pushes and of political and brains of mental patients are those pulls, both internally from himself and externally from those historical processes caused by the drugs. Neither is there around him. He is as it were in a position of checkmate.” (such as capitalism, racism, statism, Christianity, substantial evidence for a genetic —R.D. Laing and patriarchy). These processes valorize tacit basis of schizophrenia. Psychiatrists prescriptions for what is or is not considered make their money prescribing R.D. Laing argues that it is impossible to see a patient as a ‘sane’ or ‘normal’.” drugs. If they were to reject the bio- bundle of symptoms or as an organism and to understand his According to Kirk and Kutchins, the work of chemical model and the coercion it existential position. If we try to understand the existential creating, maintaining, and perfecting a implies, they would be unable to phenomenology of the person termed schizophrenic, it is no classification system has at no time in our compete with psychosocial help to relate to the barriers s/he has put up to the world or history been initiated by working clinicians. counselors who charge less. And so within himself, with further barriers. Why? Because good clinicians are aware that the American Psychiatric Association For example, if someone describes themself as dead, they no matter how many diagnostic categories one entered into a “partnership” with the may be describing the truth of their existence as they experience can hang around the neck of a patient, healing takes place in a drug companies. Organized psychiatry has become wholly dependent it. But this would not be acceptable to most psychiatrists. It is realm without judgments. for financial support on the pharmaceutical industry. So today, difficult to recognize the schizophrenic’s “despairing aloneness Neuroleptic drugs (including Haldol, Thorazine, Resperidal, the pharmaceutical companies advertise psychiatric drugs and and isolation,” Laing says. Zyprexa, etc) prescribed for “schizophrenia” cause severe the psychiatrists, also bought and paid for, dispense them. GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 30 Summer ‘03 How, then, can we understand and care for those undergoing function of this visionary episode is one of personal healing, emotional pain and anguish? Should we think of them as artistic inspiration, and social renewal. “wingnuts” or “schizophrenics” or defective objects or as Few people are aware that the ‘schizophrenic break’ — when ...... becausebecause thethe onlyonly peoplepeople human beings struggling with existential, political, emotional not artificially blocked by medical intervention — is a temporary and social problems and personal conflict? Should we drug phenomenon. The acute visionary phase naturally lasts for for me them into submission, toss them in the asylum; or try to understand about forty days, after which the psyche gradually returns to a are the Mad ones, and let them empower themselves, and even learn from them? normal state of consciousness. The interesting thing is that the the ones But if we are trying to find a better way to support people in visionary content of the acute phase centers around the who are emotional pain, where do we begin? The most important part destruction and reintegration of the ego, symbolized not only is to respect the freedom of whoever you’re trying to help. If by powerful hallucinations of personal death and rebirth, but mad to L I V E, they don’t want your help, fuck off. All well-meaning inter- also by an overwhelming subjective experience of Apocalypse mad to talk, ventions will eventually lead to the horrible state of affairs we and the end of time.” mad to be SaVeD, have now. If we want to call ourselves anarchists, we should Willis Harman further elaborates on an optimistic note: desirous of E v e r y thing realize that we cannot trust any person to have power over any “All we have learned of psychotherapy suggests that it is at at the same time, other person. Unequal power relationships do not lead to healing. the precise time when the individual feels as if his whole life is I’ve spent more than a year of my life living with various people crashing down around him, that he is most likely to achieve an around the United States who were diagnosed schizophrenic and inner reorganization constituting a quantum leap in his growth the ones forced to take neuroleptics against their will. I helped them to toward maturity. Our hope, our belief, is that it is precisely who never y a w n stop taking them, helped them through the withdrawal, and made who never y a w n when society’s future seems so beleaguered — that it is most or say a commonplace thing, sure nobody tried to force them back into the system. likely to achieve a metamorphosis in society’s growth toward Laing says that, as a therapist, one has to be able to orient maturity, toward more truly enhancing and fulfilling the but oneself as a person in the other’s scheme of things rather than human spirit than ever before.” burn, bURn, burn only to see the other as an object in one’s own world, i.e. within like WARNING: When trying to withdraw from many the total system of one’s own reference. One must be able to fabulous yellow roman candles effect this reorientation without prejudging who is right and psychiatric drugs, people can develop serious and even life- who is wrong. threatening emotional and physical reactions. In short, it is exploding like dangerous not only to start taking psychiatric drugs, but also it spiders Details aside, one thing is very clear to him: Any technique spiders can be hazardous to stop taking them. You should NOT stop concerned with the other without the self, with behavior to the across the stars. taking them all at once. I recommend trying to find a copy of exclusion of experience, with the relationship to the neglect of How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Drugs by Drs. the persons in relation, with the individuals to the exclusion of - Jack Kerouac, Peter Breggin and David Cohen and Toxic Psychiatry also by their relationship, and most of all, with an object-to-be-changed On the Road. Peter Breggin, which is a good starting point for learning about rather than a person-to-be-accepted, simply perpetuates the the psychopharmaceutical-industrial complex and the disease it purports to cure. (p. 53) psychiatric survivor movement. Also, check out Laing: It is more a mark of one’s humanity to be able to just be with www.mindfreedom.org and www.antipsychiatry.org. someone, no matter what state they are in, without needing to act on them in some way, without attempting to change them to suit one’s own book, so to speak, and yet still vibrantly alive to their humanity. But if the distressed and desperate states which are THETHE SPECTERSPECTER conventionally known as “mental illness” arise out of our conduct towards one another, then their resolution too must issue from this interface between people, out of a healing common ground that can OFOF HANNIBALHANNIBAL be established through a therapeutic relationship. That leaves us with one final area to explore: the possibility that some of what is described or diagnosed as “schizophrenia” LECTERLECTER is, in fact, a breakthrough rather than a breakdown. I’m not claiming that everyone that is diagnosed “schizophrenic” is BY WARD CHRUCHILL experiencing a kind of supersanity, or returning to an earlier sanity that has largely been discarded by civilization, but I feel what he is and what he does well enough to stop him t this juncture, the entire planet is locked, from doing it. This is the role which must be assumed by that there are certain people who do or did seem to give some A scholarship vis-à-vis Eurosupremacy, if scholarship itself credence to this idea. figuratively, in a room with the socio-cultural equivalent of Hannibal Lecter. An individual of consummate taste is to have any positive and constructive meaning. Scholar- At any rate, normal people are not “sane” by any stretch of and refinement, imbued with delible grace and charm, ship is never “neutral” or “objective”; it always works the imagination. So, I’ll wrap up this article by exploring some he distracts his victims with the brilliance of his intellect, either for the psychopath or against him, to mystify socio- writings about some “schizophrenics” experiencing what’s even while honing his blade. He is thus able to dine cultural reality or to decode it, to make corrective action described as a sort of primitive sanity. alone upon their livers, his feast invariably candlelit, possible or to prevent it. R.D. Laing argues that the condition of normal people is a accompanied by lofty music and a fine wine. Over and It may well be that there are better points of departure condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, over the ritual is repeated, always hidden, always for intellectual endeavors to capture the real form and of being out of their minds. He goes on: denied in order that it may be continued. So perfect is meaning of Eurocentrism than the life, times, and legacy Society highly values its normal man. (sic) It educates Lecter’s pathology that, from the depths of his scorn for of Christopher Columbus. Still, since Eurocentrists the children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to the inferiors upon whom he feeds, he advances himself world over have so evidently clasped hands in utilizing be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of as their sage and therapist, he who is incomparably him as a (perhaps the) preeminent signifier of their their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. endowed with the ability to explain their innermost collective heritage, and are doing so with such an

Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have meanings, he professes to be their savior. His success apparent sense of collective jubilation, the point has had to lay waste to our own sanity. We begin with the children. depends upon being embraced and exalted by those upon been rendered effectively moot. Those who seek to It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most whom he preys. Ultimately, so long as Lecter is able to devote their scholarship to apprehending the psychopath thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see retain his mask of omnipotent gentility, he can never be who sits in our room thus have no alternative but to use through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall stopped. The socio-cultural equivalent of Hannibal Lecter him as a primary vehicle of articulation. In order to do so, we must approach him through deployment of the turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible... is the core of an expansionist European “civilization” which has reached out to engulf the planet. analytical tools which allow him to be utilized as a The psychiatrist’s authority, combined with his perception In coming to grips with Lecter, it is of no useful purpose medium of explanation, a lens by which to shed light of the person’s “deviant” praxis as “illness,” imposes almost to engage in sympathetic biography, to chronicle the upon phenomena such as the mass psychologies of fascism inescapably a reifying self-concept on the latter; Foucalt (1967) nuances of his childhood, and catalogue his many and and racism, a means by which to shear Eurocentrism of captures this process in a single phrase, when he speaks of the varied achievements, whether real or imagined. The its camouflage, exposing its true contours, revealing patient as “alienated in the doctor.” recounting of such information is at best diversionary, the enduring coherence of the dynamics which forged allowing him to remain at large just that much longer. its evolution. R.D. Laing claims: “If the human race survives, future men More often, it inadvertently serves to perfect his mask, Perhaps through such efforts we can begin to genuinely (sic) will, I suspect, look back on our enlightened epoch as a enabling him not only to maintain his enterprise, but to comprehend the seemingly incomprehensible fact that so veritable Age of Darkness... They will see that what was pursue it with ever more arrogance and efficiency. At many groups are presently queuing up to associate them- considered “schizophrenic” was one of the forms in which, worst, the biographer is aware of the intrinsic evil lurking selves with a man from whose very memory wafts the cloying often through quite ordinary people, the light began to break beneath the subject’s veneer of civility, but, deliberately stench of tyranny and genocide. From there, it may be into our all-too-closed minds.” obfuscates the truth in order that his homicidal activities possible to at last crack the real codes of meaning underlying the sentiments of the Nuremberg rallies, those spectacles John Weir Perry has similar feelings: may continue unchecked. The biographer thus reveals on the plaza of Rome during which fealty was pledged to “It is justifiable to regard the term ‘sickness’ as pertaining not only a willing complicity in the subject’s crimes, but a virulent pathology of his or her own. Such is and has Mussolini, and that amazing red-white-and-blue, tie-a- not to the acute turmoil but to the pre-psychotic personality, always been the relationship of “responsible scholarship” yellow-ribbon frenzy gripping the US public much more standing as it does in need of profound reorganization. In this to expansionist Europe and its derivative societies. lately. If we force ourselves to see things clearly, we can case, the renewal process occurring in the acute psychotic The sole legitimate function of information compiled understand. If we can understand, we can apprehend, if episode may be considered nature’s way of seeing things right.” about Lecter is that which will serve to unmask him and we can apprehend, perhaps we can stop the psychopath Michael O’Callaghan gave a speech in New York in 1992, in thereby lead to his apprehension. The purpose of before he kills again. We are obligated to try, from a sense which he elaborated on the acute “schizophrenic break” as an apprehension is not to visit retribution upon the of sheer self-preservation, if nothing else. Who knows, we inner Apocalypse of the psyche: psychopath - he is, after all, by definition mentally ill may even succeed. But first we must stop lying to “Despite mainstream psychoanalysis, authoritarian religions, and consequently not in control of his more lethal ourselves, or allowing others to do the lying for us, about repressive societies, and a pharmaceutical-medical industry impulses - but to put and end to his activities. It is even who it is with whom we now share our room. which still misinterpret the condition as mental breakdown, a theoretically possible that, once he is disempowered, Excerpt from “Since Predator Came: Notes on he can be cured. The point, however, is to understand growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the natural the Struggle for American Indian Liberation”

Summer ‘03 page 31 GREEN ANARCHY #13 source seems very unlikely. What seems much more feasible is an economic collapse - which would weaken the government ability to DearDear GreenGreen Anarchy,Anarchy, act and would also incite rebellion DearDear GreenGreenGreenGreen Anarchy,Anarchy,Anarchy,Anarchy, among the proletariat. I think the question we must answer is how do Settin’ Us Straight Then Let’s Get Busy we bring this about. But that is From Greece Dear GA, an entire debate in itself. While I’m writing let me just In addition to this difficulty Hello from Greece, say that your zine is great. I would like to make a comment is the fact that what we (as g.a.’s) “Thinking Thru The Fall” was an about your “Anarchist Resistance” are asking for in decentralization awesome bit of writing. The GA web page. No need to say that it and de-industrialization is some- primer kicked ass, too. There truly revolutionary is very positive to cover news thing . aren’t any obvious flaws in your from Greece, but unfortunately Throughout history every social zine and you present your ideology there is false information in one revolution has lead to an extreme quite well [although I do find it of them. I am referring to “20 centralization and rationalization October, Greece: Anarchists a little extreme]. The hunter/ of state institutions. Vandalize University”. gatherer thing is too regressive So, not only must we engineer for me, I’m a gardener/goat herder. the collapse of the mightiest 1. The School of Mathematics But that’s sustainable, right? empire in history, but we must and Physics indeed was occupied. Points on which I do agree with also break the mold of revolution The occupation started on Friday you are many, however, such as itself. This will, in all like- 01 November and finished on early revolutionary violence. Theodore lihood, be a long and bloody morning of Sunday 3 November. The Kaczynski did nothing wrong. Those battle. reason for the occupation was not who support industrialism and Then let’s get busy. What a solidarity action to the anti- resource exploitation are destroying motivates us is love. Love for authoritarian struggler Yiannis all life on earth. Their lives the people, love for the earth, Serifis. The reason was that the should not be held as sacred. On and love for life itself. The administration of the University the contrary, their lives should forests and the creatures can’t had kept the doors of the school be taken from them just as they afford to wait any longer. They’re locked, even though it was seek to take our lives and the almost gone. Our time to act is announced that an anarchist three- lives of mother earth’s creatures. now, before they tattoo bar codes day event was going to take place. How can the earth survive when we on our foreheads and place GPS The event was organized by have men like “Dubya” in power? locators in our skulls. We have “Sintehniaplin”(www.disobey.net/ Someone has to take him out. Not been chosen to be the monkey syntexniaplin/), an anarchist Sorry, we cannot print them just him, but everyone who thinks wrenches in the machinery of antiauthoritarian art collective. like him. After enough of them all. We usually give priority oppression, hate and destruction. “The 3-day Event Against Trade have been exterminated it should I wouldn’t have it any other way. to prisoners and first-timers. a nd Spectacle” included begin to have a deterrent effect Please, get them in early and conversations, theater plays and on the others. Of course, it won’t Long Live Gaia, keep them under 500 words. concerts. be easy. They have the FBI, CIA, -Nightshade- 2. The event was attended, on police, military, etc. on their 2nd November, by one thousand side. They have a huge amount of Sparks Can Rage Into people (personal estimation) and technological might waiting to Stop the Violence! not by 200 as media said. Of course crush those who oppose them and Dear GA, Bonfires the organizers and the majority are caught. Since I’ve been in prison for Dear Green Anarchy, of the people that attended were What I’m actually proposing is self-defense against a racist Revolutionary greetings from in solidarity to Y. Serifis and g.a. death squads. Highly trained idiot, I have been oppressed for here in the security of housing every imprisoned struggler. Since and heavily armed soldiers my beliefs. I’ve been denied medical unit (AKA “solitary”). I am a the event was organized and carrying out assassinations of key attention and the F.B.I. has been prison activist and jail house announced prior to Y.S. arrest political and industrial targets. here to harass me. I’ve had my lawyer serving a three year “Shu could not be a solidarity action. It can be done successfully. Where life put on the line many times term” for being a thorn in the But there were spray-painted slogans, as economic sabotage is merely by these fools, like them putting side of the establishment. On the posters, leaflets, and chants for bothersome to these “destroyers me on a tier with a bunch of skin eve of a prison-wide work strike, Y. Serifis’ liberation. No damages of life,” executions will be heads, knowing damn well why I’m I, and a few other so-called ring- were made apart from spray-painted terrifying and can have a great in prison, and now my photo album leaders were rounded up and told slogans. The organizers had effect on the relevant circum- has been confiscated from me. It’s we were suspected of a prison cleaned the room that was used. stances. Pim Fortuyn’s misfortune one thing after another. murder. Their plan worked; with 3. The rector claimed that is a fine example. Look what Now, I’d like to comment on our “example” the movement died there were damages of 30,000 euros. happened at the polls. The only some things Free wrote in a letter at that prison and it killed two He did so, because when there are problem with this scenario is the to the Earth First! Journal. It birds with one stone, cause now I damages the Ministry of Education assassin was caught (if the man sounded like he was putting people am stuck in the hole, the better cover the expenses. In that case in jail is indeed guilty) and this down for what he calls whining for them to throw obstacles in my the rector would spend a part of has a detrimental effect on other about pepper spray and rubber prison-litigation path. But if the money for the University and g.a. executioners. But sacrifices bullets, and also encouraging there’s one thing this last twelve put in his pocket the rest of must be made, as they say. people to pick up a gun! Well, let years in prison has taught me, is them. Anarchists responded with So, you see where I am coming me say from experience of being patience. Every dog has his day, a poster showing the image of the from. What is needed is a war on shot 8 times, and stabbed 11 times, and I’ll be ready when mine comes. rector, and explaining what terrorism, but ours should be a that picking up a gun will only If nothing else, this time in really had happened. war on the real terrorists. Not make things worse. It sounds like the dungeon has given me the chance 4. The media lied because they that I don’t grieve for those who Free is talking out of desperation, to become exposed to the message wanted to create terror- died on 9/11, but look at the and doesn’t know what he’s making of our primitivist eco-warriors. climate(www.infoshop.org/inews/ atrocities the U.S. has committed a call on. How many people has he I was handed a copy of GA #11 and stories.php?story=02/11/04/ or promoted in Chile, Nicaragua, shot down? Better yet, how many it struck a spark with me. I feel 7612891). The attempt of denigration Iraq and Vietnam. Should we expect people and loved ones has he seen that spark can rage into a bonfire, of the anarchist movement and anything else? It is only the chickens shot down or died in his arms? Let given further exposure to your radical left has started a long finally coming home to roost. me say that I am the last one message. Being in the hole, I don’t time now, with a very characteristic My heart goes out to those who living in my family. My whole family have any money at all. I am case being the one of Yiannis lost loved ones. It was indeed a died by the gun, and many homeboys morbidly indigent. But I would Serifis. This attempt had taken horrible tragedy and entirely have died in my arms. Being from really like a subscription to place in order to construct preventable. “Dubya” was given Los Angeles, you can guess what Green Anarchy. I was told that negative climate for the solidarity plenty of warning but let it happen. kind of person I used to be, and you are sometimes able to give demonstration to Y. Serifis that He wanted it to happen. It boosted violence only breeds more violence. free subscriptions to convicts in was called on 7th of November by his ratings and gave the right Picking up a gun against the control units. May I please sign the “Anarchist Initiative of wingers an excuse to pass the government is going to get a lot up for one, Thank you. Thessaloniki”. 700 people despite patriot act (which was already of innocent people killed. Look I’m back here with every one the negative climate attended the written, pre 9/11). We’re well at what happened on 9-11, those else and we ain’t got shit, ‘cept demonstration. on our way to becoming a police guys killed a couple thousand for anti-authoritarian-bent and In order to restore the truth, state and guess who’s on the hit people, and the government killed a fuck the system mentality. I’m the article must be changed. There list? Anarchists of all stripes, 10,000 in response, and we are only able to come up with one is big difference between using but especially those who practice still in Iraq. If you think life stamped envelope for the cause, violent and dynamic means, as direct action. I’m sure we’ll all is bad now, it will get 100 times but I hope you can use it for anarchists, when WE CHOOSE to, be labeled as anti-patriots now. worse. Tears well up in my eyes something. Sorry it isn’t more. and the MEDIA LIES that aim to Can anarchists tried before remembering a lifetime of horror. Thank you for your time and denigrate us. I have to admit that military tribunals be far behind? I can go on, but I think you get attention to this matter. If you as one of the people that We can’t just sit back and wait the point. could add me to your “Political attended the event, I have felt for the revolution to happen. I’m cutting this short, but if Prisoners Anarchist Prisoners” very offended by media lies. So Hell, we are the revolution. In anyone needs to know more reasons column for a pen pal, that would be when I saw this article on your fact, in any basic model of revolu- why violence doesn’t work, and very much appreciated. The sentences site I felt angry. Of course it tion a political crisis must be will only make it worse, please after my address could read like is not your fault as the long created in addition to popular contact me. I’ll give you all the this: “Social prisoner sentenced distance between you and us makes discontent and actions by a reasons you want, and you can to death by imprisonment (life w/o communication indirect and revolutionary opposition, in believe me, because I’ve been parole) and turned prison activist/ difficult. In order to avoid such order for a true full-scale there. So again, don’t pick up Anarchist framed for murder and mistakes get information from revolution to come about. the gun! No matter how you look fighting the death penalty.” anarchist or alternative sources. In the Russian Revolution the at it, murder is wrong, especially Thank you. It is appreciated. In case you get info from main- crushing blows delivered to Russia of innocents. Write Me! by the Germans in WWI allowed In solidarity, stream media crosscheck it with With my life! anarchist groups or comrades. Lenin’s Bolsheviks to strike and Rodney Wade #38058 Jason A. Wilcox take power. Today America is Many regards, situated as a highly industrialized, I.S.C.I, 16B-62B J-01641 Box 1902-7b110-SHU Gaia Libertad P.O. Box 14 Tehachipi, CA 93581-5902 militarized sole superpower and defeat or near defeat by an outside Boise, ID 83707 GREEN ANARCHY #13 page 32 Summer ‘03 A.L.F. Defends Veganism Greetings revolutionary comrades, This is going to be a unorthodox withwith email coming from the animal liberation front. I assume you NewsNews fromfrom Waldorf have received our communiqué from Waldorf the action in chico, ca. Well on march 10 at 3:00am we targeted a andand different McDonald’s but is wasn’t a normal action. It was more symbolic the Balcony Statler in the sense that we needed to the Balcony Statler get rid of left over kerosine. We painted the place and simply (a(a newnew columncolumn fromfrom friendsfriends ofof GAGA)) lit a fire by the electrical room, not really intending to torch the (whomever they are) as the essential reactionary place because we know you can’t We don’t need your elements in class struggle. This quote is telling, “From time burn concrete with fire. Anyways stinking leaders to time, mostly folks from the intelligentsia, ask why class this occurred at about 3:00am struggle has not yet liberated working people from the Monday morning. We did do some It looks like Chris Crass is at it again. Someone minor smoke damage, which was please fire his marketing department. His latest exploitation of the class system? There are many historical unexpected but gave us great joy. essay “But We Don’t Have Leaders - Leadership reasons; one such reason is that we have had a parasite It would have been great if we Development and Anti-Authoritarian Organizing” clinging to our backs, the intelligentsia. The intelligentsia did cause great destruction but has helped keep the class that wasn’t our intent on that could only get printed in as many locations as its title system in place by suppressing particular action. The action on our voice, but also by creating Monday march 3rd, we did intend to has words. See if you can burn it down with two incendiary collect them all. sectarian cults that keep the devices but they went out. Heartattack, Onward working class divided.” Which We have always (this particular Magazine, Infoshop.org, clearly informs us that before cell) had solidarity with you and were only some of the we can successfully resist we still do. Me personally, not places that have offered capitalist oppression we must speaking for the whole cell, do eliminate the threat of the have a critique on an article that Chris a venue for his special was written on veganism in your brand of anarcho- intelligentsia. Mao would be last ga issue. I feel that the liberalism. That topsy-turned proud. (Even though he is one elimination of all animal abuse world where everyone who of the few people (none of is integral to help with the is oppressed (and can whom are alive) actually collapse of civilization and I articulate the terms of that named as a member of this don’t see veganism as unnatural dreaded class.) Boo! Hiss! or impossible in the wild. There oppression along identity have been very successful indig- lines) holds the keys to the enous groups that were vegan and gates of a better world, where “progressive” Finally the anti-state matriarchial. iKung were vegetarian struggles contained entirely within the context of and considerably large because the New New Left are considered the highest form communists they focused on the consumption of plant matter rather than meat. of anarchistic practice and where bridging the gap between authentic anger and mainstream (albeit have gone sectarian Being vegan is also the best thing We aren’t quite old enough to remember exactly for the environment considering good intentioned) political agendas is paramount. the dangers from factory farms This is most telling in Chris’s glowing praise of why communists split into a thousand different splinters and animal bi-products. Now I do Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez (the author of the dis- after the Russian experiment, but we’re damn near see your argument about veganism missive and hallucinatory document “Where was close. What we do remember is that they used to sit as a moral issue. To me moral the color in Seattle?”), who in this new essay is in meetings under banners such as Comintern and issues have always been in reference referred to as “a mentor and model of respectful Third International and were explicitly involved in the to god or religion. Since neither downward authoritarian spiral that was the USSR, even have any importance, morality is leadership”. More tragically, Chris seems intent on ridiculous to base one’s political dragging the anarchist tradition along his statist, if it was only to protest and be expelled during the ideology on. I also wanted to point semantic-argument-inspired path. This new essay process. After a long hibernation it appears that they out that some of the oppressive, exhumes Malatesta in the service of Mr. Crass’s New are back. While they remember the good old days controlling, authoriatirian ideas Age definition of “leadership”. After a sketch of (like when they were derided in Lenin’s “Left-wing we see in industrialized, capitalist Malatesta’s political strategy as “beginning with Communism”), it seems like they are mostly living in society also exist in nature. I the shadows of books like Empire (Hardt and Negri, personally disagree with the concrete change with the intention of expanding survival of the fittest argument. peoples desires and capacity for liberation”, Chris Harvard University Press, 2001) and writing grumpy Killing animals so we can survive scribbles off the page “Leadership development is letters to Anarchy Magazine. In addition, they have a is one of those survival of the about expanding that capacity and recognizing new journal named Aporia (defined as wonder and fittest ideas that I disagree with. that social change doesn’t just happen, it is made. amazement before the confusing puzzles and I’ve known vegan primitivists that It’s about the long, slow, patient process of building paradoxes of our lives and of the universe) that charts survived quite well in the wild, st power with people rather than power over people.” new territory for the 21 century. This is the first wave, eating roots, various vegetables of what is guaranteed to be many; sectarian attacks and nuts. It is quite easy to do. Sure, if you say so. My only other question has to He then goes on to retell the internal struggles of against anarchists along the lines of the question of do with one’s ideology and how San Francisco Food not Bombs, wrapping up that state. The article in question, titled “Anarchist Bodies they live their lives. Now I am in boring story with this zinger: “In rejecting leadership, and the Bodies of Anarchism” by Don Kingsbury no way putting down the primitivist I was in many ways rejecting responsibility and begins with an introduction to the Black Bloc (which idea of life. The only thing that accountability to others and continuing the tradition apparently is useful for the anti-state commie who I question about it is the spends all their time in the library and hasn’t caught implementation being used in a of capitalist individualism. In learning to respect the practical everyday life. You can leadership of others and in myself, I have struggled wind of the new sensation sweeping the country) and tell me if I am wrong, but I know to reclaim trust in and respect for myself, both of ends in the safe Foucaultian space of naming the very few primitivists that are which I was taught to achieve only Black Bloc as “biopolitical in practice or theoretical actually living in the forests through dominating others.” It’s one constitution, yet retain defining linkages everyday. I only mentioned this thing for poor Chris to redefine words to older formulations of power and because the article talked about power relations”. Which I guess is an veganism being too ideological. to suit political expediency, it is yet Well the vegans I know do practice another to claim that anyone who anti-state/post-Foucaultian smack in everyday life what they preach doesn’t agree with him (or excuse me, down or something. I recall getting (ie alf). It is unacceptable in isn’t willing to reject “responsibility” and biopolitical just last week, but the doctor my opinion, for any anarchists to “accountability”) is continuing the ’ gave me a laxative. really sit there and eat meat, it s open! Beyond linking the Bloc to the spurious knowing full well that all the tradition of capitalistic individualism (or maybe only he is capable of such a Herculean task). mouthpiece of the “White Overall” meat you buy in stores is an agent movement (with their articulated strategy of reclaiming of complete oppression, both from If he is so concerned with not dominating others an animal rights stand point and (and then correspondingly leading them), how space in spectacle) the clear agenda of this hit piece anti civ perspective. I hope I have exactly can he justify the total transformation of goes like this, “the Black Bloc creates the State made my point clear and concise. society, whether along anarchist or even race traitor according to the image it would have it display in an You’ll be hearing from us again. lines? I guess that’s the point: he doesn’t. Get off attempt to illuminate a truth”. Which hints at the Solidarity the stage, you bum! direction that our post-neo-commie friends would take ALF their analysis. If you don’t read Marx, Negri, Lukacs, et al. One Editor’s Note: Not much room to you are more apt to fail in your revolutionary strategy respond, so we’ll get into more details than those of us who have. Valuable words from a in future issues. We can pretty much The Workerist stands agree that within industrial theater box even farther removed from the stage of civilization, a vegan lifestyle is alone history than anarchists. the least dominating (and probably preferable), yet this does not take Infoshop.org exists as some sort of virtual feeding into account more complex ecological, pool for anaerobic organisms. Arthur J. Miller is an health, cultural, and economic matters. Take them away! However, as far as the actual eating obvious example with the publication of of animals, sorry, but it IS part of his new essay “The Intelligentsia and the Class nature whether we like it or not. I Struggle”. Arthur clearly doesn’t get out much as W&S would rather integrate into a natural process, then once again try to evidenced by his need to explicate the intelligentsia p.s. we will be back! transcend or rise above it. 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You can even extract a yellow die from the roots. anti-civilization/green anarchist DANDELION - Taraxacum officinale critiques. The gathering will provide a Parts Used: Both the roots and leaves. (but in case you don’t know they place for people to get a thorough are both VERY bitter.) In eastern medicine the bitter taste is seen as essential introduction to various strands of anti- to stimulating the gall bladder and tonifying the liver, thus maintaining proper civ thought, but will focus on trying to digestion. The leaves are a natural diuretic (good for water retention/PMS, connect face-to-face and deal with urinary irritation, etc) and can also be sauteed (with garlic and vinegar as well issues that are brought up within the as apple juice to counteract the bitterness). The roots are an excellent liver critiques and make stronger connections. tonic and are often roasted and powdered to make a drink similar to coffee We are hoping, above all, to create (when sweetened). VERY high in iron, Vitamin A, and calcium. an environment where people are DOCK- Dock (Yellow, Curly, Red, Sour) willing to share, grow, and have a Parts Used: The leaves. Has a lot of the same properties as dandelion in its good time. The entire event is centered effect on the liver and digestion. You can eat the leaves the same way, and they too are quite bitter (although less so in the spring). Traditionally eaten on active participation and we hope as a “potherb” (simmered and eaten along with the cooking water, or “pot that people will come and bring their liquer”) in the spring, along with dandelion and nettles. The heavy dose of knowledge/experience. green energy is considered to jump start the digestive organs. 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